Word: lambing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sweet, muddy substance each day-have not risen in price. Those who try to supplement their meager ration on the black market, however, have found that the unofficial price of sugar has jumped more than a third; the price of tea has risen by 94%. Beef and lamb are available only twice a week, even in restaurants. Yet no one suffers too much: alternatives include chicken, fish, pork, ham, sweetbreads, brains, tongue and squab. Most Cairenes tend to stay home these days anyway. Though it may not daunt Israeli pilots, the blackout, along with an 11 o'clock curfew...
...instead of being offended by the epithets, he wears them boldly as though they were testimonials to his manliness. For Bullins the only law that operates between man and woman is the law of the jungle as he, the ferocious lion, preys upon what he characterizes as lamb-like women. "What unsettles me most about women," he confesses, "is when they are aggressive." Unlike Eldridge Cleaver, Bullins is unable to raise rape to the status of a socio-political act, for Bullins sees himself as nothing but the legendary black cocksman. "I want what I want and that...
Ramadan, Islam's holy month, ended last week with Id al-Fitr (Feast of the Fast-Breaking). As the new moon rose over the horizon, Arab families sat down to traditionally sumptuous meals of lamb, rice, mahshi and sharab (eggplant and yogurt), sticky sweets and fruits. The celebrations, dulled by the uncertainties in the Middle East, were unusually subdued among the 1,000,000 Arabs who live on the Israeli-occupied western bank and the Gaza Strip...
Four men have arranged a weekend of undisturbed eating at a fenced-in country house once owned by the classical poet Boileau-Despreaux. Their arrival is followed by the arrival of the meat truck bearing wild boar, lamb, beef. Each carcass is ceremoniously described: "Three dozen young Ardennes roosters...two superb, soft-eyed deer, the flesh redolent...ten dozen semi-wild game hens...
Freezer Run. The bargain hunters seem to fall into two camps: those determined to eat as much meat as ever and others willing to use high-protein alternatives to some extent. Mrs. Hackett, the lamb-and-goat lady from La Grange, speaks for the carnivores: "I know there are a lot of women who are going to ride it out with eggs and cheese, but I want meat...