Word: graining
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Sleight of hand: during a meeting of the Economic Policy Council last year, the Secretary of State and the Secretary of Agriculture started lobbing grenades at each other over a proposal to sell grain to the Soviet Union. Others entered the argument. Voices rose, arms waved. Through it all, Ronald Reagan sat silently, apparently concentrating on picking the black licorice jelly beans from the crystal jar on the table in front of him. Occasionally, he would look up. Once, as he did so, he caught the eye of an aide sitting opposite him at the back of the room...
...solution, it was perfect: the Golden Arches pays all the pickle farmers they employ to stop producing sour cucumbers and begin producing staples like potatoes, grain and the like. What you've got here is the beginning of an international food distribution service. Since everyone throws out the pickles anyway, we eliminate waste and the needless production of a needless product...
...Rambo Meets Dorothy Hamill (the announcer said) but then I don't remember much else of the game because we had stopped in Macon, Georgia and bought several bottles of homemade Georgia Peach Wine which tasted a little like the juice from Libby's Canned Peaches spiked with Everclear grain alcohol and which we had drunk very quickly and with little regard for personal well-being which didn't keep any of us from shouting at the top of our lungs "Sieve! Sieve! Sssssieve!" whenever a Harvard shot-on-goal penetrated the Spartan line...
...Miles, whose product is sold at Healey's Market, has been raising beefalo for four years. His animals are given no hormones and are fed whole- grain corn because consumers did not like the tougher, grass-fed variety. His beefalo was indeed juicier and more tender than the Chenango meat, which comes from cattle that graze on grass and are given spring water and supplements of mineral blocks and hay. A small roast purchased from Healey's was slightly dry, even though it was cooked at 300 degrees F, as suggested; stew meat needed much more seasoning than conventional beef...
Later we asked them why, if the Soviet authorities hate Jews so much, don't they just allow them all to emigrate? Sergy gave us two reasons, first that "they keep us to sell." When the Soviets want something from the U.S., for instance the sale of grain, he said they let a few Jews go to "prove" that they are making progress on human rights. Secondly Jewish emigration sets a bad example for other minority groups in Soviet society. In 1979, after large numbers of Jews were allowed to leave, "everyone wanted to emigrate," Sergy said...