Word: beetly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Yemenite Jews ate meat only about once a week. But they drank oceans of tea and coffee, and heady, 100-proof arrack distilled from citrus fruits and sugar-beet molasses...
...help U.S. beet-and cane-sugar producers meet foreign competition...
...return to a free market is highly unlikely because of the power of the U.S. sugar lobby, which draws its strength from 25 beet-and cane-sugar-producing states, the Philippines and Puerto Rico. The lobby argues that the consumer, although paying for the quota system, has benefited from it through price stability. Over the past ten years sugar prices have risen less than the general rise in consumer food prices. The U.S. retail price of 11.5? per Ib. is about 5? per Ib. below the median price in 121 other nations around the world. Says a top Agriculture Department...
...Indonesia, the East Germans finished a sugar mill two years behind schedule only to find that it was a beet-sugar mill and the rollers were not heavy enough to crush Indonesian cane sugar...
...With his beet-red face and grey hair plastered to his head, Boland resembles a jovial Irish publican, but the scholarly, Dublin-born diplomat finds as much relaxation in reading Latin and Greek classics as in Irish gin and whisky. A colleague at the U.N. considers Boland "far and away the finest chairman the Trusteeship Committee ever had." This delicate post was excellent preparation for the kind of diplomacy required of an Assembly president-knowing how to preserve decorum, when to persuade someone quietly to call for an adjournment, and when to press for a night session. The Assembly...