Word: beefs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When austerity-minded President Arturo Frondizi predicted last January that "a lowering of the standard of living is inevitable," the warning could hardly be heard for the sounds of high living. Over street fires, outdoor laborers at noonday broiled tender chunks of marbled beef that cost 8? a pound; white-collar workers lunched in restaurants on 17? beefsteaks so large they overlapped the dinner plates. Sundays brought an outdoor churrasco (barbecue) that began with meaty ravioli, went on to beef broiled over a pit fire...
...Argentina, intent on curing its economic ills, needs to cut beef consumption and restore it to its historic role as a foreign-exchange earner. One day Amalia Ferrer, wife of an insurance-company employee, said to her butcher: "Carlos, two kilos of beefsteak." Carlos cut the thick slices, said: "Seventysix pesos [the equivalent of 19? a pound]." Señora Ferrer protested: "But Don Carlos, only last Friday I paid 60." Sighed the butcher: "That was Friday. Today this is the price; soon it will be more." The housewife settled for stew beef...
...Harrisburg's barn-big Zembo Temple, where 6,000 Democrats had shelled out $100 each for Johnson, roast beef, ice cream and the 48-piece Hegeman String Band, the reception was sweetly tender. The Hegeman String Band strummed Deep in the Heart of Texas. During the preliminaries, beaming Lyndon table-hopped through the hall and on through the two tents pitched to handle overflow diners, shook hands, cracked jokes ("You discovered oil here in Pennsylvania, but we get all the blame"). Boss Lawrence courteously introduced his guest as "the man who guided through the Congress the programs upon which...
...described a new gimmick that has worked in animals: they treat growth hormone (from cattle) with acetic anhydride, inject the resulting acetylated compound into rats. It appears to be taken up by the animals' systems in a way that blocks the effects of their own growth hormone. This beef-gland product does not work in man, but the researchers are trying to get human growth hormone and treat it the same...
...throb of skin drums mingled with" the high-pitched, cacophonous music of steel-stringed gourds. Fires flickered in every direction under great cauldrons simmering with a beef stew made from 14 cows and oxen. The village of Mahusekwa in Southern Rhodesia's Chiota reserve, only an hour's drive from bustling, modern Salisbury, made ready to crown a King...