Word: butcher
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...London's Holborn district, a butcher adorned his empty window with the hand-written text: "Let them wander up and down for meat, and grudge if they be not satisfied. (Psalm 59, Verse...
...Veterans Administration read the letter and got the shock of its life. For the past three years, a disabled World War II veteran wrote, he had been getting $100 a month for on-the-job training as a butcher, and $12 to $15 a month in disability payments. "Now," he said, "I feel like the Government has done enough for me, especially with so many fellows coming back from Korea all shot up. There are enough of us sucking the country dry, and it's time . . . we started giving." Enclosed were two Government checks, totaling $126.40, which...
...Butcher for the World, Tool Maker, Stacker of Wheat, Player with Railroads and the Nation's Freight Handler; Stormy, husky, brawling, City of the Big Shoulders...
...time chasing Silvana and plotting to steal the rice harvest. Along the way is a good deal of earthy violence: Silvana gets birched on a roadside ; Doris is nearly mobbed as a scab by her fellow workers; Gassmann is impaled on a meat hook during a fight in a butcher shop. Director Giuseppe de Santis gets a sweaty authenticity into his scenes in the barracks and fields, and devotes a lot of deserved footage to Silvana's Grecian profile and womanly body...
...guess I'll have to have an old-fashioned sherry." He loves baked Virginia ham. The story goes that a soldier some years ago lost a Virginia ham that he was supposed to deliver to the general. In a panic, the soldier bought a ham from the nearest butcher, tried to palm it off as a genuine Old Dominion product. Almond detected the fraud, ordered the soldier to write 25 concise words on the differences between ham and Virginia...