Word: butcher
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...town experienced an incomprehensible act of violence. Russell Simpson, a 19-year-old local ne'er-do-well, walked into Hathaway's market and lunch counter at closing time, pulled out a pistol and cried, "I want your money!" The 71-year-old grocer grabbed a butcher knife and hacked at the youth's face and arm. Simpson began shooting. His pistol fired, clicked twice, and fired again. The grocer fell dead. The bleeding youth ran home and was arrested almost immediately. That was last autumn...
...grew worse, however, the supplies of kosher meat ran low, and the government did not have the foreign exchange to import all it needed. Three months ago, in a desperate effort to maintain Israelis' fortnightly meat ration, the government allocated some locally grown pork to a few nonkosher butcher shops in Haifa...
...Then Juan Perón & Co. began tinkering with the national economy. A soak-the-farmers policy cut heavily into grain and cattle production. Last year, despite severely curtailed beef exports, Buenos Aires got its first taste of a meat shortage, with meatless days in restaurants and queues outside butcher shops. Since then, Perón has given cattlemen a somewhat better break, but beef is still in short supply...
...grandfather came to Oregon for the Hudson's Bay Co. in the 1840s). He was christened James Douglas, but dropped James when he was a youth. Father was a carpenter and young McKay quit high school to help with the family income. He delivered papers, drove a butcher wagon, worked as an office boy for the Union Pacific, ran a small laundry. Worked his way through Oregon State, where he concentrated on agriculture. In 1920 went to work as auto salesman, within two years was sales manager of his firm, then borrowed money to set up his own Chevrolet...
...person of Dr. Maurice Pechet, resident senior tutor of Lowell House and faculty shepard of the Pre-Medical Society. Most pre-meds in non-science fields, however, have never heard of him, although each fall word of him circulates among pre-meds like the news of a cut-rate butcher among housewives. Dr. Pechet, a pleasant man wise in the ways of admissions committees, dispenses advice with a reassuring tone, but because of his House duties and his own research work he does not have enough time for all pre-meds and their problems...