Word: larded
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...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...
...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...
Fail-Safe. At sea all hands take exquisite pains to keep the encapsuled atmosphere habitable. Navy chemists know that animal fats break down during cooking and give off eye-irritating chemicals, so ship's cooks use vegetable fats instead of lard. Bleaches are forbidden in the ships' laundries; they release chlorine that would contaminate the atmosphere. Aerosol shaving creams are prohibited because of their Freon gas. Ship's doctors must guard their clinical thermometers carefully; if broken, their mercury might evaporate into deadly fumes. But as important as the air itself is the attention to the inner...
Worse yet is the phony backwoodsiness of much of the dialogue ("Yuh doan git lard less'n yuh boil the hawg"), and worst of all is the teary sentiment that blears every other frame of the film and wallows to a climax of blubbering bathos when a little girl, as the carnage at the Alamo concludes, turns to her mother and piteously inquires: "Mummy, where's Daddy...
...variety or any other of life's spices, the computer solemnly accepted the facts that a man must have certain minimum quantities of protein, calcium, iron, phosphorus and five vitamins. Then its nerve cells went to work, concluded that only four foods are needed to sustain life: lard, beef liver, orange juice and soybean meal...