Word: beef
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...decade of 1910-20 for example, the University actually discriminated against athletes. On the other hand, others fear that adverse fortunes on the football field might lead to recruiting with a single aim in mind Given three choices abandoning intercollegiate football, as Chicago did, converting to a professional beef trust, or maintaining an amateur policy--the University has chosen the middle course. It will continue the attempt to attract the scholar-athlete, although this attempt may already have been made futile by the rank professionalism existing on today's latercollegiate gridirons...
Last week the aborigines, who have been holding nightly rainmaking ceremonial dances, gave up in despair. Government medicine men also admitted defeat, radioed northern cattlemen that no relief could be expected until next November's monsoon-if it came. One result: there will be no beef available for export to Britain this year...
...with his problem," says Rice. "At the speeds contemplated for the future, aluminum will relax and lose much of its strength. Canopies of today's materials will soften like putty and pull from their foundations. Radar equipment may give the wrong message . . . And the pilot would simmer like beef stew without refrigeration...
With virtually no hope left for early lifting of the U.S. embargo on Canadian meat and livestock, Canada made a costly stop-gap agreement to trade her surplus beef and pork to Britain in exchange for New Zealand meat that she can resell to the U.S. (New Zealand cattle are free of the foot-and-mouth taint.) Canada stands to lose up to $10 million this year on the barter, but it is the only immediate way to clear up the glut of meat on the Canadian market. Domestic meat prices have already sagged, giving consumers a temporary break...
...though the English had said no thanks to roast beef, as though the Germans had sworn off beer. Italy's sunny vineyards were heavy with grapes as they had not been in years, but Italians no longer seemed to care. With horror, the government reported that Italy's domestic wine consumption had fallen from 100 liters per year per head before the war to a mere 70. The cause: high cost of living and a taste adulterated by foreign imports. "Before the war," sighed one expert, "when you went to a country osteria, you found only wine. Today...