Word: beef
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...general pause." The Administration maintains that the bombing is essential since it ties down 100,000 North Vietnamese in repair work and disrupts the flow of men and matériel. By contrast, the Communists used last winter's respite to repair facilities, strengthen antiaircraft defenses, and beef up their forces south of the 17th parallel...
...Bloody Beef. Man is a grisly fact to Bacon's eye. With surrealistic swiftness, he slaughters the human form; yet the smithereens seem to scream for recognition. Despite the mayhem he commits with his brushes and his stylistic isolation, he is today considered Britain's greatest living painter. In a recent poll by France's Connaissance des Arts, he ranked fifth among the world's ten favorite living artists. His works are selling for prices...
Bacon achieved this popularity despite his blatantly repellent subject matter: slabs of bloody beef, shrieking popes, and men performing vague erotic gymnastics. In his recent paintings, he has focused on portraiture. In a frenzy since the beginning of the year, he has painted 30, half of which go on view in Paris' Galerie Maeght this week. The rest the artist cut to bits too small to reach the open market via his trash basket...
...example, he said, in the Freshman Union "we have more than tripled our freezer capacity, which means that we can buy for two months instead of two weeks. We have also installed new rotary ovens which cut beef shrinkage ten percent...
Princeton, by no means out of the League race, should beef up its record against Brown today. The Bruins have four valuable starters, including quarterback Jack McMahon, returning to action. It would take a dozen more valuable starters, however, to put Brown on Princeton's level...