Word: beefing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...story ranch house, workmen put the finishing touches on baskets of Texas wild flowers hung from the limbs of live oak trees. Bouquets of chrysanthemums floated in the 40-ft. swimming pool behind the house. Cooks hovered over charcoal broilers, tending to some 200 lbs. of home-grown beef tenderloin; others monitored the huge vats where corn-on-the-cob was steaming...
...hardhats. Those charts have been proved wrong a number of times. Basil Quirk, boxing fan, father of five, proud owner of a three-decker in one of Boston's most solidly working-class areas, is a firm and enthusiastic-supporter of McGovern. Over a dinner of roast beef, baked potatoes, rolls and pastries, Quirk told TIME Correspondent John Stacks...
...Please! Tell the whole story about beef prices [April 10]. American-raised beef is one of the housewives' biggest bargains. If we turned all prices back 20 years, do you know what we ranchers would then receive for our beef on the hoof? Exactly what we do now. Do you really believe that we can pay our taxes, hire labor, buy machinery, fencing supplies, repairs or anything else for the same prices we paid 20 years ago? How do we stay in business? We borrow a little more, we have our eleven-year-old son work full time...
...there would be some subtle winnowing out of the rosters. A lot of the guys in the funny T-shirts were going to go by the wayside, and a few studs would be imported to beef up the starting lineups. This worried The Pork. Among the first recruits, he had been an ace. Your basic wide receiver. Not with an arsenal of moves, but your standard head feints and hip fakes, and sticky hands. A former JV captain for the Boston Technical Tigers, who had gotten away from the game, but was still within a few hundred pushups and pass...
Allende's political predicament has been accentuated by economic problems. Inflation is continuing at an alarming rate. Shortages of goods are getting worse. Meat is sold in markets only two days a week. Without much success, Allende has urged the beef-loving Chileans to eat more rabbit and fish...