Word: beefing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...entertained 20,000,000 U.S. tourists who spent $200,000,000 (up $40,000,000 from the year before). In 1946, some 418,000,000 bushels of grain from Canada's lush wheatland, some 1,250,000,000 lbs. of fish from her coasts, plus vast amounts of beef, pork, oats, barley, had helped feed Canada and the hungry world...
...rounds and testify to the legitimacy of Joe's unbelievable errand. After that, hour after hour, Joe gave away money. "Who wants whiskey?" he called. "Who wants dinner?" He took a hundred men into a tavern, bought them drinks and meals. He led another ragged brigade past Bowery beef-stew joints to a restaurant that served turkey, and then ordered dinners for all. Then, with money gone and hoarse toasts ringing in his ears, he went outside. He sat down on the curb and wept, out of pity and joy and for a boy he remembered, named Joseph Bonavita...
Jubilantly he climbed out to tackle an enormous roast beef dinner and tell of his weird and wonderful sensations...
...Five-Year Plan whose details make interesting reading for anyone trying to figure out how Russia will behave on the world stage in the next few years. By 1950, if the present plan is completely fulfilled, each Russian will still have less sugar than in 1913, less beef and mutton than in 1929, less soap and oil than in 1937, less pork than in 1938, less living space, shoes & stockings than...
...time the bouncy, bumpy Roedean Girl became a national byword, as British as roast beef and Yorkshire pudding, and the butt of music-hall skits. She wore a bright-colored, shapeless wool Mother Hubbard called a djibbah,* talked in a full-voiced, fruity accent. The Roedean Girl knew how to play cricket and to "play the game"; she never "let the side down," never "sneaked," always "pulled her weight." In caricature and often in fact, she was a mannish, muscular, back-slapping bluestocking...