Word: beefing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...family seemed just as much at home on the sooty sidewalks of New York as on the red clay of Plains. They attended plays and parties, shopped at Bonwit's and Bergdorf's, held a family dinner at Mamma Leone's, munched pastrami and corned beef at a delicatessen, rode the Staten Island ferry and the Circle Line around Manhattan and artfully revealed and concealed themselves as the press and crowds of curious, friendly people dogged their every step. It was almost as if the Carters were throwing a party and New York was invited...
After some barbecued beef and refried beans, Reagan took his guests on a tour of the modest five-room Spanish-style house to which he and Nancy escape whenever they can. Reporters passed a poster advertising an old movie (Talk About a Stranger), a U.S. Army recruiting poster, an autographed Al Capp cartoon of Li'l Abner and a tile floor the Reagans laid themselves. Wearing an assortment of cowboy hats and a state policeman's hat, Reagan posed for photos and then asked his visitors to sign a guest book. He said that the ranch provided...
...Canadians did save Arnold's hungry and isolated forces during this past winter by selling them beef. But when hard money ran out, as it eventually did, Canadians refused credit. When American troops began pillaging farms, the Canadians became increasingly hostile...
...Philadelphia, the price of beef has exploded-up 114 percent in only three months, from ?3 10 shillings to ?7 10 shillings in Pennsylvania currency per barrel. New Yorkers are buying refined sugar at exactly double the cost of three months ago (1 shilling 3 pence, v. 2 shillings 6 pence per pound). And tavern keepers throughout the Colonies are bitterly protesting the intoxicated prices of West Indian rum, now running as much as 110 percent higher than last whiter. Even the humble pin is no longer humble in cost. A woman in Braintree, Massachusetts, complains: "The cry for pins...
...convoy and swam to the North Carolina shore. He also reported that when the convoy stopped at Cork in February, Allen was greeted ecstatically by sympathetic Irishmen, who showered on Allen such luxuries as wool cloth for suits, a couple of beaver hats, several turkeys, sugar loaves and pickled beef...