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Word: beefing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Devine see any diminished appetite. Nixon ate his crab claws with gusto as the Sequoia plied the waters of the Potomac. He chewed through a good slice of roast beef, ate carrots and beans, polished the meal off with ice cream...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY by HUGH SIDEY: Nixon: Steady as He Goes | 5/27/1974 | See Source »

...come on," Nixon urged the Congressman, who heads the Republican Congressional Campaign Committee, "break down a bit." Nixon did. He had a couple of Scotches and water. Then there was a nip of light white Bordeaux with the crab claws and some hearty California Cabernet Sauvignon with the beef. Michel unlimbered his camera and took some snaps of the men on this special excursion into history...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY by HUGH SIDEY: Nixon: Steady as He Goes | 5/27/1974 | See Source »

Another symptom of the void at the top was Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz's unilateral decision two weeks ago to buy $45 million worth of beef for the Government's school-lunch program, in an attempt to prop up beef prices. Butz's decision came as a complete surprise to the COLC'S food policy committee, which is chaired by Shultz, and provoked an angry reaction from Dunlop, who has greeted recent declines in prices of grain and livestock with undisguised pleasure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ADMINISTRATION: Byzantine Fight for Power | 4/15/1974 | See Source »

...Head and Assistant Head Sectionmen--tries to operate on the hysterical notion that a half-year course in Writing has got to Do The Job, or else. For apparently the course was severely scrutinized last year when senior faculty complained that Harvard undergraduates could no longer write well. So beef up Expos...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: RESIGNED TO EXPOS | 4/10/1974 | See Source »

...Moscow in two years, the Russians were sure-handed in orchestrating what they now call Operatsia Kissingera. Sleek convoys of Zil and Chaika limousines flowed between the Secretary's guesthouse in the Lenin Hills and the Kremlin's Spassky Gate. Tables groaned under caviar, salmon, sturgeon, steak, beef Stroganoff, fruits and Georgian wines. There was even a special celebration for Kissinger's daughter Elizabeth, who was traveling with her father and who turned 15 in Moscow. She received a birthday cake from the American embassy, a present from Soviet Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev and VIP seats...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DIPLOMACY: A Yellow Light on the Road to D | 4/8/1974 | See Source »

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