Word: beefing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Salisbury has already been forced to raise its defense budget fourfold in the past three years, to $80 million-a big bite for a country already suffering from United Nations-sponsored economic sanctions. Calling up reservists to beef up Rhodesia's 4,500-man army and 1,500-man air force would further strain an unstable economy...
...food that it buys-enough to feed about 4,000 people. Middle-income families waste more food than either the rich or poor. Low-income people eat as much meat as those who are better off but consume proportionately more vitamins, liquor and bread. During the beef shortage of 1973, householders threw away about 9% of the beef they bought, perhaps because they were purchasing unfamiliar cuts or unusually large quantities...
...social schedule in Danvers was topped by he Glen Magna ball and antique show, and Twi-League baseball. Other than Route One's meat-on-he-hoof singles spots, the town's only after midnight establishment was Supreme Roast Beef...
...Hall of Fame. And I'm going to the Eliot Lounge to play bumper pool." So it goes. Little more than two years from that day in Omaha, Fred Lynn is the sensation of baseball, Athlete of the Year. And Brayton? Brayton's at Barney's, eating a roast beef sandwich...
...material success may be no substitute for the intangibles, like pride in his work, but, the way his friends see it, Rich has come a long way since the days when he was trudging around with them in the Cambridge slush, agonizing over term papers and eating Barbecue Beef in the Lowell House dining room. What really gets them, though--what really sets their teeth gnashing--is that those days were so recent. That's just the way it happens, for some people. Before he could hang up his mortarboard, Rich was writing an article about Daniel Ellsberg for Esquire...