Word: ch
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fish and vegetables and hopelessly asking prices. One squat, broad-faced woman, a tram conductor's wife, finally bought two cracked eggs for her family of five. What if prices went even higher? She answered resignedly, for all of China's badly used plain people: "Chih-hao ch'ihku" (We can only eat bitterness...
...been the envy of U.S. housewives. Last week, T-bone steaks were 70? a lb. in Lethbridge and sirloin was 75? in Ottawa. This was a third less than New Yorkers were paying, but Canadian housewives thought the prices outrageous. In Ottawa they paraded with a papier-mâché cow, demanding a rollback. They would certainly protest more loudly if prices jumped again-as prices certainly would if the government lifted the embargo on beef shipments to the U.S. Yet cattlemen in Calgary, selling choice steers for record prices as high as $23.70 a cwt., griped because...
...best of these self-propelled movies went on exhibition in Manhattan last week at the Metropolitan Museum. The scroll depicted a spring festival, Ch'ing Ming ("Clear and Bright"), as it was celebrated along the Yellow River in 12th Century China...
...crowd sees only six dogs in the ring, but the judge sees twelve-the six real dogs, and six ideal dogs that exist only in his mind's eye. He isn't comparing the Bedlington with the springer; he measures the real and the ideal Bedlington." Ch. Rock Ridge Night Rocket might not look much of a dog, but of his kind, he was tops...
...other: Ch. My Own Brucie, a cocker spaniel...