Word: larded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...under which the rich minority get off easy. Three months ago, angling for Alliance for Progress aid, Velasco ordered new taxes. But instead of increasing the burden on the aristocracy, he slapped the little man with a series of excise taxes on 37 consumer items from soft drinks to lard. One levy even set tolls for the country's few paved roads, many of which were built with the $121 million in U.S. aid that Ecuador has received since World...
Smiling sweetly, the serpent of denial protested that she had never been told that the Congressmen were coming. The Congressmen melted like lard, particularly the one who sidled up close to her royal highness and sniggered: "I came, I saw, I conquered...
...been waging against Castro's Cuba. In the past five months. Harris has seized ten Cuban planes flown to the U.S. by defectors-five C46 cargo planes, three Piper Cubs, a DC-3B and a Cessna 180-as well as 3.5 million lbs. of lard purchased in the U.S. by Cuba and intercepted in Florida. He has sold these items for $200,000, is thus nearly halfway through his drive to recover $429,000 due him from the Cuban government because of a 1959 advertising contract...
Infuriated. Harris took his case to the U.S. courts, finally won an order granting him the right to seize and sell Cuban equipment up to $429,000. Harris took to flying around in airplanes to spot boxcars of lard on remote railroad sidings, seized the very plane that was to take Castro home from the United Nations sessions in New York last September, set up his own private intelligence system to detect planes and boats arriving from Cuba...
...December in our 50-year history," glows General Merchandise Manager Ralph Chase. "We don't seem to be following the trend." The other is the Delaware County surplus food distribution center, where needy families collect their monthly rations of federal handouts - dried eggs, dried milk, flour, corn meal, lard, butter. This month the distribution center will stay open twice as many days as it usually does in order to handle the demands of some 3,000 Delaware County families - largest number "on commodities" in the center's three-year history...