Word: beefing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ralph Delair stayed in the fields until the sun had sunk over the low hills in the west. Then he milked his cow again, fed his stock, covered the tractors for the night, ate a supper of roast beef, potatoes, biscuits. When the dark came, he was in the old-fashioned sitting room off the kitchen, smoking his pipe, listening to the radio, reading what old William Allen White had to say about weather and politics in the Emporia Gazette. At 9:30 he was in bed, sound asleep, not hearing the stinging Kansas wind whipping the darkened house...
Citizens might beef at the quality of information coming to them out of Washington, but no one could beef at the quantity. Tons of printed matter poured out of the Government press sections. U.S. citizens might not be fully informed of the war situation in the Pacific, but they still got recipes from Department of the Interior's Fish & Wildlife Service for the cooking of planked shad...
...Hempel was mad as hops. She said the box held food for a dog. Poisoned, perhaps? Nonsense! cried Mme. Hempel. She reached in, pulled out a piece of boiled beef, ate it herself, to show them...
...milk, rice, 1 qt. of spruce beer. He had to do his cooking himself. The War of 1812 added another item to the list: vinegar, which was mixed with sugar and water to make a highly regarded tonic. In the Civil War, Union soldiers got 20 oz. of beef, 22 oz. of bread,* 2½ oz. of beans, rice, green coffee, sugar, vinegar. Pepper was added to the menu in 1863. The daily cost of the food was 22?. By the time World War I broke out, Army rations had increased to 19 basic items, and cost...
...cycle of ovulation, this hormone also induces the production of two to 30 eggs in such beasts as cows, horses and sheep which normally cast but one offspring at a time. Thus increased is the chance that a cow will produce twins (now one chance in 224 in the beef breeds) or even quintuplets...