Word: beef
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...warning of an attack. To speed detection by priceless minutes, the program also steps up work on Midas, a satellite-borne, spy-in-the-sky warning system. To counter an enemy's manned bombers, the bill will improve the Nike-Hercules and Bomarc ground-to-air missiles, beef up the F-101, F-102 and F106 interceptors...
...going to wield the broom," he promised on inauguration night, "by the handle." Where Kubitschek ran his palace like an open house. Quadros ran it like a Marine barracks. He tossed Kubitschek's luxurious furnishings out of the executive offices, fired the fancy chef (he prefers beef, rice and beans), returned Kubitschek's $8,000 grand piano. "Economy," he said, "begins at home." Aides no longer walked; they ran. Locks barred the presidential doors, and red and green traffic lights informed ministers when to knock, when to wait. In the halls, guards appeared, toting their submachine guns. "This...
...wisely let his laughs come naturally, and the tone is, in the phrase of the women's magazines, heartwarming. Only hopelessly carnivorous viewers will refuse to take the pledge with Fernandel when, reunited briefly with Marguerite at film's end, he tells her, "I will never eat beef again...
...been a long day of walking for you, and you've earned a mighty supper. The top five restaurants are probably Locke-Ober's ($8.50 for lobster savannah; wait for your rich uncle to visit you), Joseph's, Red Coach Grille, Durgin Park (the roast beef, by all means), and Jimmy's Harborside (for seafood). Boston has a small Chinatown, about four blocks long, running off Washington St.; the House of Roy is one among several good restaurants in the area. For Italian food, it's Carmen's an as yet little known walk-up on Charles St., small, intimate...
Other dining places, for visitors with an adventurous palate, are the Athens-Olympia (Greek), the Nile (Syrian), Chez Lucien (French), and the South Seas (Polynesian). But in the end, after heart-burn and indigestion, everyone usually returns to Elsie's for her immortal fifty cent roast-beef special...