Word: beefing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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AUTHENTIC camp is a rare thing, but the script of You Can't Take It With You crawls with it. Darkie cook Rheba says to shuffle-foot Donald. "Yassuh, I'm glad I'm colored": angel-daughter Alice cries exasperatedly. "Why can't we be like other people? Roast Beef, and two green vegetables, and doilies on the table..."; Kolenkhov, the emigre ballet master, deadpans. "She is a great woman, the Grand Duchess. Her cousin was the Czar of Russia, and today she is waitress in Child's Restaurant. Columbus Circle." Unadulterated camp is screamingly funny just because...
...venturing any guesses on whether the strike could last the 40 days that some labor leaders have mentioned, but food is not an immediate problem. Shortages in some meats, including lamb and beef, could show up within a fortnight, but Britain has a two-month supply of such items as butter, wheat, bacon, cheese and sugar. The country is in less danger of going hungry than of falling back into economic straits. A long strike could shut down steel mills for lack of ore, then close auto plants whose exports earned ? 1 billion last year. Already the strike is bottling...
...graduates kept the local bowling alley open all night. Next evening they assembled for a ham and beef banquet, looking prosperous for their ages and, because of state liquor laws, influencing their Cokes from brown paper bags. On each table at the Hilton Inn was a construction-paper centerpiece noting the most important events of the past ten years. In 1963, John Kennedy's assassination. In 1965, Debbie Bryant (a Kansan) named Miss America. In 1966, Kansan Jim Ryun runs the fastest mile. Not a word about Viet...
FLOOR FURNACES. The metal grilles of gas-fired floor furnaces, which are often used in mobile homes, sometimes reach temperatures of 350°. That is hot enough to cook chicken or beef. For years, these grilles have been searing the unwitting with waffle-like patterns. They are the leading cause of burns among children under five; altogether, 30,000 to 60,000 people a year suffer furnace burns serious enough to require medical attention...
...term, male go-nads," said Los Angeles Police Chief Edward Davis, "men who are willing to stand up and fight for what they believe is right." Then the chief requested a 161% budget hike for fiscal 1971 -from $97 million to $113 million. With that, he would beef up his force to 7,010 men and increase his air force from four helicopters...