Word: beefing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Meanwhile, sales for the candlelight supper on Friday are continuing apace, with over 100 of the 200 ducats sold. The supper, according to publicity chief A. Werner Pleus '51, will feature tablecloths and thick slices of beef, as well as the candlelight...
Peach trees and flowering shrubs bloomed across Oklahoma last week. Out on the panhandle, Bermuda grass was turning from winter-brown to green. Beef cattle moved on to the fattening ranges of the Osage. In California, sunbathers headed for the long Pacific beaches. In Manhattan, city hicks swarmed into Madison Square Garden for the circus...
...only regular exercise he ever takes: the lifting and downing of four large Scotch highballs before dinner. He stripped off his tentlike coat and trousers, took a shower, waddled around in his underwear for a time, got into a clean suit, and sat down to a roast beef dinner. Then he hustled his men back to the office...
...oranges and lemons (the British had foresightedly cleared the bulk of the Palestine citrus crops before beginning troop withdrawals). Fruits and vegetables were arriving from South Africa. But the average Briton was still plagued with shortages. He was limited to a shillingsworth of meat (tuppence of it in corned beef), and fats and soap were hard to find. The current music-hall gag on the subject: "The soap ration doesn't worry me-with the food I get I ain't got the strength to wash." To make up for the shortage of clothing coupons, film studios rented...
Perhaps the Russians were worried by recent public reports that the U.S. was about to beef up its espionage service. Or the Kremlin may have created the Berlin crisis in order to take the news play away from final enactment of the European Recovery Program. In Britain, for instance, two papers got so excited about Berlin that they failed to mention that President Truman had signed...