Word: beefing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Beef...
...Gaya, India, when a Moslem housewife heaved a pot of cooked beef at her husband, the gobbets hit a Hindu girl passing beneath the window. Result: a street riot (beef is sacred to Hindus), six killed, 75 injured...
Houses ruled that the Navy could buy no more foreign canned beef-after Mr. Roosevelt had stung Western Congressmen last week by declaring that the Argentine brand was better than the U. S. brand...
Third Day. What Their Majesties had seen in the first whirlwind two days was mostly quaint, Arcadian stuff-a Frenchy people curious, appreciative but not essentially King-loving in the British manner. Beef-eating Ottawa more than made up for this...
...cattlemen and their spokesmen in Congress exploded with indignation at this Presidential statement. In Argentina whose frozen (but not corned) beef has been kept out of the U. S. on the grounds that the country harbors hoof & mouth disease, his words were acclaimed. Said Argentine Foreign Minister Jose Cantilo in Buenos Aires : "A fine gesture ! ... An important precedent in friendly relations...