Word: beef
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...greater in Viet Nam than in the sleepy little town of An Khe in the barren Central Highlands. Late last summer, 21,000 troopers of the U.S. 1st Cavalry (Airmobile) set up tents and helipads near An Khe. Prostitutes and profiteers swarmed into the town; prices for everything from beef to beer soared, as did the incidence of disease among the Americans. Dysentery and other intestinal diseases multiplied fourfold within four months; venereal disease soon afflicted nearly a third of the G.I.s...
...final column, O'Hara claims that the newspapers canceled because he was too conservative for their tastes. Most readers who like O'Hara enough to plow through the book, which covers everything from politics and education to journalism and television, will concede that he has a legitimate beef...
Though it hardly came as news to the housewife, the Labor Department last week reported another sharp increase in food prices. Leading the rise were beef, veal and poultry, which, with fish, jumped 17.4% in cost during the twelve-month period ending March 31. Pushed on by these three main-course staples, overall food prices leaped .7% in one month, hiking the consumer price index .4% to an all-time high of 112% (based on the 1957-1959 average...
...named Vindicator. A hornless Hereford, he arrives in America well before the turn of the century, chaperoned by Maureen and plucky Juliet Mills as a well-bred English mother and daughter with some eccentric ideas about animal husbandry. Their hefty British bull is just the thing, they swear, to beef up the herds of lean longhorn cattle then prevalent in the West...
...gets a Harvard secretary? Any person or organization that wants one and can afford her salary. It's a process not unlike calling Elsie's for a roast beef special, and specifying "no Russian," A professor, for example, will call up the Personnel Office, say he needs a secretary, and suggest how much he can pay her. He is asked to list, as completely as he can, his secretary's duties. The professor may also request a "type" of girl, such as married. The Personnel Office sends over as many girls for interviews as could possibly fit the "order...