Word: lambing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Haven't I seen this lamb before? Like yesterday, under the alias of pork...
...still stiff 35% if temperatures moderate. The average U.S. household will spend $270 to $290 for the October-March season, v. $200 last year, and the total national home-heating bill could rise to $ 19 billion by the time March goes -or does not go-out like a lamb. In January, consumer prices generally surged 10% on an annual basis, the sharpest spurt in 18 months; some fuel prices rose even more (see chart). Those figures were collected before the worst of the cold weather and do not reflect the full inflation in heating bills...
...camps, a typical meal consists of vegetable soup, baked beans, bread and jam, macaroni and cheese, ground-beef casserole, pancakes, spaghetti and meatballs, beef stew, fresh baking-powder biscuits, in no particular order. Somewhat more delicately, Julia Child girds for winter with bean soup, enriched with leftover beef or lamb stew or whatever, and home-baked bread. And long johns...
...Russians have no special tricks for keeping warm. Every man wears a shapka, a fur (muskrat, rabbit, squirrel, fox or Persian lamb) hat with ear flaps. Everyone wears warm boots; the best are the felt valenki favored by villagers. People who work outdoors wear, of course. Soviet Union suits. After a long spell in the cold, they raise spirits with a stiff jolt of vodka and a hunk of fatback...
...Aniello Dellacroce (translation: "Little Lamb of the Cross"), 62, who was Gambino's longtime underboss. A legend even among Mafia assassins, Dellacroce relishes doing his own dirty work. Says one federal official: "He likes to peer into a victim's face, like some kind of dark angel, at the moment of death." Dellacroce is a master of disguises. Known throughout the Mob as "Mr. O'Neill," he often donned priest's garb on his troubleshooting assignments for Gambino, earning his other name, "Father O'Neill." Dellacroce's men -undisguised-were at the motel meeting...