Word: lambe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...buying is complicated by a growing list of shortages and its efficiency is threatened by a lack of manpower, the food system of Harvard University still fulfills its primary task of feeding a city of 5700 people three times a day. All the work it takes to bring a lamb from the farm to the stew on a student's plate is centralized on the top floor of Lehman Hall in the offices of Roy L. Westcott, manager of the dining halls...
Lucius Beebe cast his eye back over the bloody year of 1942, recalled baked lobster Savannah, soft-shell crabs, roulade of sand crabs, jugged saddle of hare, monies marinières, rack of lamb, shrimp Creole, Strasbourg foie gras, Dom Perignon champagne, pompano belle meunière, venison steak grand veneur, shad roe bonne femme, terrapin stew, escallopini of veal, oysters Rockefeller, pheasant in casserole and eggs gashouse. . . . Concluded the Lucullan Lucius: "Betcha it won't be like this next year...
...York, beef stocks were 35% of normal, may be exhausted by year's end. Beef for bologna, a big item in New York, was 20% of normal; pork, 50%; lamb, 40%. Butter sales were restricted, sometimes to a quarter-pound per customer. Canned fruits and vegetables generally were limited to two cans per customer. Canned milk was almost impossible to get, but Mayor LaGuardia announced that arrangements were made to honor physicians' prescriptions ordering milk for babies and whipped cream for the ailing...
...traditional luxuries drop one by one from the menu, the customary practice of condemning the food at Harvard is becoming even more widespread. It begins to look as if braised beef will be almost a daily feature, with lamb saute as the principal feature. But, no matter how much more inferior the food has become and will become in future months, the student will have to take it and like...
Everybody made cracks about the Navy Department moving across the Potomac into the Army's sprawling, 42-acre Pentagon Building (even Secretary of War Stimson cracked: "The lion and the lamb are preparing to lie down together"). Then some Navy employes found on their desks an official-looking memorandum on U.S. Fleet stationery. Excerpts...