Word: beef
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Perhaps no one is surprised at this lurid information. Perhaps the reader is at the moment sitting back and contemplating his green roast beef with an air of hardened indifference. Perhaps, however, he is outraged. In which case, we will endeavor to soothe...
...record national income and spending pressed hard on prices. The Department of Agriculture reported that consumers would pay more for pork in 1957, and possibly for better-grade beef. Last week, alarmed by the burst of price increases, Washington began taking notice and action. Two congressional committees laid plans to investigate the hike in gasoline prices, and the Department of Justice launched a third probe into a possible price-fixing conspiracy. In an attempt to keep sugar prices from soaring higher, the Agriculture Department again increased sugar-marketing quotas, the second time in less than a month. But as consumer...
...perfectly," the friend observed, "looking and acting the part more of a traveling salesman than an Oxford don. Gaitskell is a very bright and shrewd man," he continued, "combining all the sharpness of a brilliant, well-trained civil servant with the light touch of a hearty beef-eating Englishman...
...Carolina, he says, because "I can't see getting on a subway and going to school." Also of the varsity squad, Bob Cunningham, 20, comes from The Bronx; Stan Groll, 19, is still searching about Chapel Hill for a corner delicatessen where he can buy a corned-beef sandwich like the ones he used to eat in Brooklyn; Pete Brennan, 20, hails from Brooklyn; and Tommy Kearns, 20, from New Jersey...
...Complaint. North Carolina fans have no complaint, and none pretended it was any accident that there were so many misplaced Northerners in town. In 1953, when Carolina decided to beef up its team to make it a match for neighboring Duke, Wake Forest and North Carolina State, the Chapel Hill authorities sent for Frank Joseph McGuire, blue-eyed, wavy-haired son of a New York City cop. After five years as coach at St. John's University, McGuire had a readymade network of high-school coaches anxious to ship him the fanciest talent from the basketball breeding grounds around...