Word: beef
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Despite their nomadic ways, motor homers are intensely gregarious people. A great many belong to organizations around the country that stage rallies at which members swap tall tales of the road, expertise and quantities of food and drink (the fare runs to beef, beans and Bud). The biggest and most tightly knit group is the Family Motor Coach Association (FMCA), which boasts 31,000 dues-paying members ($25 per annum per family) in 130 chapters across the nation. To qualify for membership, a motor-home owner must have a vehicle that is at least 18 ft. long, is "self-contained...
...biography amplifies the papal declaration. Peronist power was founded on a simple principle: Take from the rich and give to the poor, then take from the poor. Just after World War II this was not difficult. Argentina was fat with hard foreign currency from its exports of wheat and beef. While Juan donated the machismo, Eva provided the cunning and humorless drive. Largely under her direction, the wealth was spread...
...classmates converged on the diesel-powered stern-wheeler Liberty Belle for the cruise that was to cap their 30th reunion, a four-hour voyage up the river into the darkness and back, a roast beef dinner and dancing to a three-piece band. It was a stirry night of boozy merriment, insistent camaraderie, an interlude of urgent small talk and the irresistible pursuit of ghosts...
...only $49.70 this summer. The round-trip price includes visits to uncharted villages from Devonshire to Derbyshire, scenes of London rarely glimpsed by the natives, a vintage assemblage of odds and sods and intellects, and carte blanche to the last remaining pubs that purvey strong ale, stalwart beef and susceptible barmaids. Best of all, you don't have to leave an American beach to get there; the no-wait, wingless voyage can be booked at a bookstore. The package consists of six new novels of mystery, crime and suspense by English authors. Each proves again that in the land...
Second, the Administration should help cattlemen to realize that potential by getting tough with countries that bar beef. If the Japanese refuse to lower their high barriers against America's meat, the U.S. can put quotas on Toyotas...