Word: beefing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...there are reports that people in East Beirut are starving. A woman reached by telephone describes what is happening: 'We live in the cellar of our building. There are some nuns with us and they pray, but the bombs keep falling. We finished our last tin of corned beef -one spoonful for each person. There is only half a gallon of water left, but we don't dare go up into the streets. When a dying dog came into our shelter, a boy said he would take it away and bury it. His mother told...
Peterson, an Assistant Secretary of Labor during the Kennedy years, was the first person to fill the White House consumer post after Lyndon Johnson created it in 1964. Reappointed by Carter, and enjoying somewhat greater clout in the Oval Office, she helped persuade the President to raise beef import quotas in June as a way to drive down meat prices, and she is lobbying for legislation to keep coffee and sugar prices low. Of her new publication she says: "It's not pabulum. It's no WIN button...
...addition to folks at the Golden Arches, Baskin-Robbins, the International House of Pancakes and Hamburger Hamlets have all been foiled by a Los Angeles campaign to enforce honesty in eateries: it is now against the law, for example, to describe a nondairy product as "cream," or lower-grade beef as "prime." Like truth inadvertising and truth in lending, truth in menus is catching on. Chicago issues its own menu guidlines: "'Baked ham' should not have been boiled." Councilwoman Carol Greitzer of NEw York City has introduced a bill of fair fare that would outlaw such representations...
...came to meet Janey Cray, who swooned over Elvis when she was young and sweet, and who now spends sleepless nights in the cab of a tractor-trailer rig, squinting out over burning cigarettes at interstate highways as she roams from city to city, transporting sides of beef and chocolate-covered cherries in a refrigerated trailer. And that was how I came to be chatting with a man carrying a revolver in a pitch-black hallway in a Memphis Holiday Inn one August night, when all the power was out in a city with all its policemen and firemen...
...think we could probably do that." And so with a complacent speech from an energy executive and a pleasing roast beef luncheon, and no coverage from the media, the subcommittee smiled at its report and adjourned...