Word: butchered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Subcommittee Chairman Benjamin Rosenthal of New York City led aides and reporters to a supermarket for a personal check. Packaged goods were found to be mismarked, frozen foods were half thawed, and the manager admitted that after two days on the shelf, packaged meat was taken back to the butcher's block, repackaged, relabeled-and redated. In St. Louis, a test by the city health laboratory determined that hamburger purchased at a slum store was 26.5% fat compared with 18.5% fat in similar meat bought in a good neighborhood. Even a head of lettuce is often wearier and smaller...
...road. Back at the house, his wife kneaded the dough for the day's bread, then took soap and dishcloth to wash the Mason jars in which she was about to preserve apple butter. When she hurried out to get provisions, it meant going to the grocer, the butcher, the druggist, and the hardware store to get all the items on her list. By the time she got home, it was far too late to stop by for a chat with her neighbor Gladys, five blocks away; nor could she phone to explain, for in those days there...
...somewhat reminiscent of the bar in Saroyan's The Time of Your Life. The narrator hero (Warren Berlinger) recalls how from earliest childhood he had been brought to the bar night after night by his mother (Betty Garrett), who is driven by a masochistic thirst to watch her butcher husband (Warren Gates) while away the evenings with a waitress floozy (Peggy Pope). In her firmly devoted way, the mother believes that the boy should get to know and understand his carousing father. It is a futile hope: in a drunken stupor, the father tries to kill the boy with...
...porridge of marriage and adultery, closed on its opening night. Hailey, 35, does not believe he could have survived the blow to his playwriting morale except that he had already completed Who's Happy Now?, over which he had brooded for ten years. His father had been a butcher, who frequently moved the family from one small Texas town to another-"those Panhandle towns where the main street goes on and on and on, and there's nothing much behind it, like a movie set." Hailey acknowledges that the play "was anchored in my childhood...
...their drive, Butcher and Seabrook operate in relaxed fashion, Butcher from his ground-floor brokerage desk, Seabrook from a pint-size office eight floors above. Butcher still swims daily in his suburban pool, plays tennis regularly. Seabrook, a model-railroad buff, raises horses and collects antique carriages (he has two dozen) at his 4,200 acre farm in Salem, N.J. He and his wife, former United Press Correspondent Liz Toomey (whom he met at Grace Kelly's wedding to Monaco's Prince Rainier), often slip into 18th century costume for champagne-sipping country outings amid the asparagus...