Word: beef
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Although the Watutsi comprised only 14% of the population of 5,000,000, they kept the Bahutu majority and the Batwa Pygmies in a state of virtual serfdom. Cattle feudalism was the basis of the system. The hapless Bahutu were forbidden to own or kill cattle; they could get beef only when cattle died of natural causes. Each Watutsi's wealth, prestige, and political position were measured by the size of his herd, and every cow was regarded as a sister in his family...
...clock every morning last week, the queues began to build up in front of Buenos Aires' two sparkling new Minimax supermarkets. When the glass doors opened at 7:30, hundreds of bargain hunters rushed in to buy Argentine beef for 15? a pound (most B.A. groceries sell it for 30?) and other foods at 25% to 35% less than standard Argentine prices. Though the second store has been open only three weeks, the success of the two Minimaxes is so certain that their backers-the Rockefeller brothers, plus a group of Argentine financiers-are already building three more...
Died. George Charles Montagu, 87, ninth Earl of Sandwich, whose :8th century ancestor, the fourth Earl, is credited with concocting the first sandwich (a slab of beef between two pieces of bread) because he once refused to leave the gaming table for a more conventional repast, recipient in 1956 of the National Pickle Packers Association's annual "Pickle Award" in gratitude for the sandwich's assistance in helping the pickle packers peddle a peck of pickles; in Huntingdon, England...
Rumanian grain production has matched prewar output only six times in the last 17 years. Horse meat in Bucharest is plentiful, but beef is scarce. Beef is also short in Hungary, which last year shipped $3,200,000 worth of cattle to West Germany in exchange for industrial goods...
...with the Gold Coast and postwar Radcliffe, and crusade to exterminate the last real menace to the Harvard community, the "jock." He's a crude, embarrassingly inept social thing in an HAA sweat shirt--a C student at best, these people maintain, as they request more scholarly replacements to beef up the total intellectual output of the College. The most common disagreement is with the admissions policies of the University, which, they say, "have been guilty of admitting too many jocks...