Word: beefing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with Foreign Minister Carlo Sforza. Then she would go on to France and England-where she was already getting catcalls from the press. The Socialist Party has urged French Premier Paul Ramadier to declare her unacceptable. And London's big, breezy Sunday Pictorial, which was howling at Argentine beef prices, screamed from a frontpage banner, PRESIDENT'S WIFE is NOT WELCOME. But Evita was used to brickbats; they had not stopped her before...
...weed-grown yard of the cotton gin in Faxon (pop. 178). Where cotton had reigned, wheat was now king. There were their headquarters-a 27-ft. trailer, complete with electric washing machine and king-size electric refrigerator. From the trailer came the mingled smells of good Texas beef, potatoes, beets and beans cooked by Mrs. Dupree and daughter Doris Gean...
...Beef. 3. Cheese. 5. Tobacco...
Same night, same city, New York County Republicans dined more austerely at the Waldorf-Astoria. For $50 a plate, 1,200 diners got stuffed tomato, sirloin of beef, nuts and coffee, and a speech by Governor Thomas E. Dewey...
...good times and a boom in sugar, Cubans were griping last week. From scrubby street gamins in Havana's Barrio de Colén to the panama-hatted businessmen in the Manzana de Gémez, they panned Grau for the high price of lard, the scarcity of beef, the roaring black market. There were demands in the press for his resignation. Habaneros tell the story of the Camaguey man who had been badly beaten up for talking about Grau. "Did you say very bad things about him?" asked a sympathetic cop. "No, I praised him, and then...