Word: butcher
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Butcher shops had little pork, prime beef, lamb or turkeys to sell. Farmers sold most of their hogs last spring, have few to market now. Nearly 40% of the four better grades of beef was set aside for the armed forces. The nation's 36,000,000 turkeys were held off the market until the Government placed its orders for 80,000,000 pounds. By last week the Army had nearly filled its needs and turkeys may again be sold to civilians (see U.S. AT WAR). But there will not be enough birds for Thanksgiving and Christmas...
...Butcher Returns...
Conspicuous for his absence during practice sessions last week was Roy Heisler, speedy forward, who had been the spear-head of the Crimson, attack before leaving for the Army at the close of last term. Coach McDonald thinks, though, that Bill Butcher, a newcomer, will be able to take Heisler's place and supply a much-needed offensive punch. Butcher, a medically discharged veteran of the second World War, was an outstanding halfback for Harvard before joining the army...
General Allen, a professional soldier who prefers combat to conferences, modestly honked that chief credit for this improvement should go to rayon-smooth naval Captain Harry Butcher, ex-CBS radio executive, aide and close companion of General Eisenhower. For himself, Honk Allen claimed only to have used a field soldier's methods to help clean up a mess...
...battalion landed from light, fast assault craft on Homonhon, Dinagat and Suluan. Jap communications were hamstrung but not completely destroyed. Tokyo got some kind of word that something was afoot, but apparently could not make up its mind that this was it. Field Marshal Count Juichi Terauchi, once the butcher of North China and now island commander in the Philippines, made no special preparations for resisting a major assault...