Word: beefing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...single year, can go for so-called "feeder contracts." For a down payment of $50,000 or so, Oppenheimer will handle the financing and feeding of a 500-head herd until the cattle reach proper weight and grade. The herd must then go to market, whether volatile beef prices are on the rise (which means win) or too low to cover costs (which means lose...
Grubs, lizards and roots were sometimes the food. A prostitute's price was four ounces of salted beef. Sodomy was less costly and more common...
...well to cut into and out of speeches in a kind of on-the-spot editing (based on advanced copies of the text). Sitting in the Convention building, all I could do was walk out of the hall and hide in the room where reporters can get free roast beef sandwiches...
Castro's indifference to the city dwellers is understandable. Cuba's greatest need is for more food. Rationing permits only eight ounces of beef per person each month, only three pounds of rice. In Havana people wait in line for hours at restaurants and markets to supplement their meager rations. "Lines are a social institution now," explains a Vedado woman. "They are also the only way to get anything...
...usually a day of frenzied activity-cleaning, shopping, preparing meals in advance for the tranquility and family intimacy of Saturday. There are some personal satisfactions. At sundown, after the wife lights the candles preceding the traditional Sabbath-eve dinner (typical menu: gefilte fish, matzoh-ball soup, chicken or beef, potato kugel), the husband often chants an ancient song of praise for his wife. Drawn from Proverbs 31, it begins: "A good wife who can find? She is far more precious than jewels." Says Mrs. Baris: "I obviously don't need it for my ego, but I've rushed...