Word: beef
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There was no meat shortage, either. In the Iowa feed pens, farmers last week were fattening 37% more cattle than a year ago. In Nebraska and Illinois cattle feeding operations were also higher. By fall there would be such a tremendous flow of fattened beef and pork to the nation's markets that prices were expected to fall...
...stretch, the race had settled down to a match between Dragon's speedy young mare Nituzza and Wave's pace-setting Miranda. Twice Nituzza's jockey tried to pass; twice Miranda's jockey flailed him across the face with his long, beef-sinew whip. Miranda won by a length. The winner's purse: 360 lire (about...
...peasant disguise is quoted more often than Lincoln. Santayana and Oliver Wendell Holmes, and just about as often as Franklin and Thoreau. Not many U.S. workers would go along with Grayson-Baker's ideas of the simple life: "Talk of joy: there may be things better than beef stew and baked potatoes and homemade bread-there...
...flatlands of Kansas, deep-tanned men, with wheat dust pasted to their faces, pushed the clattering combines northward in the annual harvest of winter wheat. The Shorthorns and Herefords lumbered lazily across the Great Plains; 13 million new beef calves bellowed at the smoky bite of the branding iron. Down South, in the weeks before the cotton bloomed white, stretching like a giant snowdrift from North Carolina through Texas, there were watermelons and peaches to be picked, small grain crops to be brought in, tobacco to be topped and suckered, beef and dairy cattle to be tended...
...around begging?" The question, says Brother Hance, "quite upset and embarrassed us, so we ventured to say that we would cut meat for an hour if he would beg for an hour and see which one worked the hardest. This brought a very quick response . . . with a roast of beef...