Word: butchered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Costley, a former TWA hostess who is a part-time religion teacher and Little League batting coach, is anything but extravagant. She asks her butcher to trim fat off meats so that she will not have to pay for it. Still, she spends $85 a week for food and other household items, or twice as much as four years ago. The Costleys not long ago added a porch, patio and basketball court to their ten-room, $46,000 house, at a cost of $4,200, or $1,200 more than they would have paid in 1967. "But I still...
...took Bunk on as a second trumpet. He and Evan started soundin' real nice together--man, we had us a band then. Well, about two nights before Thanksgivin', we was up on the bandstand, and this fella name of John Gilbey come runnin' into the dance hall with a butcher knife. Said Evan been messin' around with his wife. Evan didn't have no time to run, so he grabbed me by the shoulders and ducked down behind me." George raised his eyebrows and smiled his ironic smile, "Man I thought I was finished then. That man reached over...
...material lot is somewhat better than it was five years ago, his monthly pay is still only about $67 and the goods he can buy are generally shoddy because better-quality products of farm and factory are sold abroad. Meat is a once-a-week delicacy and Bucharest butcher shops offer mostly sausage. Lately, Rumanian planners have begun to worry that factories may be pulling so many workers off the under-mechanized collective farms that crop shortages will develop. However that problem turns out, Ceauşescu's biggest economic gamble is political. He banks on his faithful adherence...
...really fresh revelations-including covert CIA funding of the National Student Association and military-financed secret research at universities. Circulation rose to a high of about 225,000. It has been losing some $20,000 an issue, partly because of its flashy, full-color format (says Hinckle: "I hate butcher paper"). A contributing reason was the fact that some of the staff grew fond of spending too freely...
...Snow has achieved a double sequel of sorts: the tenth novel in his Strangers and Brothers series seems to be an offshoot of On Iniquity, his wife Pamela Hansford Johnson's recent moralistic account of the Manchester Moors murders. In Sir Charles' version of perversion, two lesbians butcher an eight-year...