Word: beefing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Wrote Correspondent Mead: "Only the food was missing. Dinner, when the dining-room doors were finally thrown open at 10 p.m., consisted of small pieces of bread on which were dabs of Spam, corned beef and Vienna sausage. ... No one mentioned food. It almost doesn't exist for civilians at the moment. . . . They say the Germans were very correct: no drunkenness, few troops; no noise...
...basic ideas on eating are 1) never to satisfy his hunger completely at any one meal; 2) never to eat sugar (because he believes sugar crystals get in people's blood streams and cause infections). He takes a healthy, if restrained, interest in such substantial items as roast beef, lamb and pork chops, baked potatoes, butter, cream. His present enthusiasm for wheat is more industrial than dietary, like his onetime predictions that roads would some day be paved with coffee beans, and automobiles be made, in part at least, from cantaloupes...
...final economic and financial crackdown against Argentina is in the works. State Department officials talked freely last week of: 1) dropping the United Nations beef contract with Argentina-up for renewal next month; 2) freezing Argentine funds...
...export of beef is Argentina's largest industry. Under the contract, the United Nations agreed to take 1,500,000 tons of meat, 6,000,000 Argentine steers. So the loss of the contract would hurt. But in Britain. Argentina's biggest customer, the eating of beef is an old custom. Britain would be willing to go along with U.S. policy, if the U.S. can supply the lost beef. It looked as if U.S. foreign policy would get down to the level of the U.S. stomach...
...lake is a seven-mile stretch of deep blue mountain water, rimmed by high pine-forested ridges and fed by a brawling, canyon-hemmed river. Summer cottages dot its beaches, and beef cattle graze in a Western-story valley below. The star-spangled nights at Payette Lake are beautifully clear; only the city-bred get any feel of the banshee, the barghest, the ouphe (rhymes with out) or other beasts prominent in monster husbandry. So Idahoans discounted serpent talk. And the serpent himself, a shy thing, appeared only at rare intervals, always at twilight...