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...Beef. It's been the meal for dinner for 25 years, but not anymore...
...second meal Woolf describes, at a women's college, consists of a "plain gravy soup," stringy beef "with its attendant greens and potatoes--a homely trinity," prunes "exuding a fluid such as might run in misers' veins who have denied themselves wine and warmth for eighty years and yet not given to the poor," custard to mitigate the prunes and biscuits so dry as to require jugs of water to wash them down. After this unsettling meal, she speculates, "We are all probably going to heaven, and Vandyck is, we hope, to meet us round the next corner--that...
Here in the heart of the American Dustbowl, most of the residents work as laborers in the surrounding corn and soybean fields, in the beef-and pork-packing industries or in farm-equipment manufacturing. A group of 20 to 30 migrant farm workers, mostly undocumented Mexican immigrants, come for two months each summer to work in the corn fields, town officials...
Here in the heart of the American Dustbowl, most of the residents work as laborers in the surrounding corn and soybean fields, in the beef-and pork-packing industries or in farm-equipment manufacturing. A group of 20 to 30 migrant farm workers, mostly undocumented Mexican immigrants, come for two months each summer to work in the corn fields, town officials...
...Pentagon officials Tuesday over last month's bombing in Saudi Arabia. First, the military underestimated the threat of terrorism to U.S. troops in the Middle East. Under stiff inquiries from members of the Armed Services Committee, Defense Secretary William Perry admitted that U.S. military commanders were slow to beef up security around service bases after another bombing in Riyadh last November. Second, and more damaging, testimony by Perry and others made clear that U.S. officials had not pushed the Saudi government hard enough to comply with the new security plans. Senator John Warner (R-Virginia) said he was "stunned...