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...were already showing signs of matching Tokyo's enthusiasm. As one Tokyo critic explained it: "My eyes were blurred with tears of my deep feeling. We have been waiting these many years just for this night." Said another enthusiast: "I feel as if I had eaten a big beefsteak of music...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Beef for Japan | 5/16/1955 | See Source »

...bits of glass upon a paper which Mr. Potter was reading and into the hair of a child he was holding on his lap, then struck an iron pot standing on the stove at which Mrs. Potter was cooking, when it fell flattened into a pan in which a beefsteak was being cooked . . . Where the bullet came from was a mystery, and the Potter family hope that no one is angry at them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Vintage West | 8/30/1954 | See Source »

...National Bank, one of Dallas' Big Three. Although Bob became a bank president and a local big shot, he made his reputation as a supersalesman. "Everybody's got to sell," he says. "Preacher's got to sell his sermon, butcher's got to sell his beefsteak." And Thornton had to sell Dallas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CITIES: The Barker | 10/19/1953 | See Source »

...Even VoVo lay silent, crouched in a corner. Then someone, peering from the window, cried, "Why, there's Marc now!" And down the street, wearing the neat, pin-stripe suit that fitted him so snugly, came Marc. "I've decided to give myself a reprieve," he beamed. "Beefsteak with pepper, please, Madame. Well, it's nice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: The Joke | 10/19/1953 | See Source »

...many spare engines are needed. Air Force Secretary Harold Talbott explained that the flying time of a jet, without an overhaul, was originally estimated at 100 hours. But the new engines run for more than 250 hours. Said Defense Secretary Charles Wilson: "This is just like ordering a big beefsteak, a pound, and finding you only want a half-pound . . . Not knowing how hungry we might be for these spare engines, we ordered more than we could...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATE OF BUSINESS: Put & Take | 9/28/1953 | See Source »

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