Word: beef
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Georgia. Ollie's Barbecue was a tougher problem, since it is eleven blocks from the nearest interstate highway, does not advertise, seeks no transients. Although it is in a Negro neighborhood and employs 24 Negroes, it serves Negroes only from a take-out counter. Yet Ollie's beef-some $70,000 worth last year-was purchased from a Birmingham wholesaler who imported it from Hormel meat-packing plants outside of Alabama. Racial discrimination, ruled the court, affects the volume of Ollie's business, and therefore the amount of meat it buys...
Founded by Hugh Mason and William Fortnum, a footman to Queen Anne, the store has been, in fact, a running footnote to British history. Fortnum's supplied Wellington's officers with hams and butter during the Napoleonic Wars and shipped 250 Ibs. of concentrated beef tea to Florence Nightingale and her wounded in the Crimea. At home, Fortnum picnic hampers have always been de rigueur fare at Derby Day, Eton-Harrow cricket matches or an Oxford-Cambridge boat race. Dickens praised Fortnum's provender, and Benjamin Disraeli, after a hard day in Parliament...
...Elkins, Packer Coach Vince Lombardi cracked: "We missed by a couple of hundred thousand." The New York Giants went all the way to $100,000 to land Auburn's rugged (6 ft. 2 in., 221 Ibs.) Tucker Frederickson, the "big back" that Allie Sherman wanted in order to beef up the Giants' sputtering ground attack. Notre Dame Quarterback John Huarte, who was being fought over by the A.F.L.'s New York Jets and the N.F.L.'s Philadelphia Eagles, was asked: "How does it feel to know you'll be able to lay your hands...
Most people in Uruguay really could not accept that they had had too much of a good thing, and were faced with shattering economic collapse. They reminded each other proudly that beef export is up, chose to forget that wool export, the country's other major product, is generally down. Despite the fact that as much as 50% of a man's salary may be withheld against social benefits, and that much of this withholding is illegally used by capital-starved companies, politicians anxious to please the people called for more benefits...
...been three weeks now that the Bratwurst's tasted funny; that the Roast Beef Special's been maybe a little heavy on the Russian. That compulsion to stuff our faces has been on the wane with Elsie's heart. She's back behind the counter now. We think we'll order a nice fat Fresser's Dream...