Word: loin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...quality of the film lies in Swanson's ability to catch the innate humor in his cast. Pennywhistle Blues takes the South African native out of a loin cloth and puts him into the Western clothes he's accustomed to wearing. It is a film in which the natives amuse rather than terrorize. With its inventive photography and a crew of natural performers, Mr. Swanson has come up with some sensitive anthropological touches that Margaret Mead never thought about. And nobody flings a spear all evening...
...most effective controls on meat began to come last week from the housewives themselves. They were refusing to pay $1.30 a Ib. for loin of lamb, $1.10 and up for sirloin, as much as 70^ for hamburger. "The way people are buying," grumped Chicago Butcher Louis Blut, "I think they are living...
Scale of Values. In Yonkers, N.Y., the burglar who broke into David Stein's home passed up silverware and jewelry, carried off a loin of pork, 2 Ibs. of chopped beef, a 3-lb. sirloin steak...
...only cut of horse meat which the Faculty Club buys is the loin or filet mignon, which is aged and seasoned with salt and black pepper for two weeks before it is cut into eight ounce steaks...
...April 13, at 3:48 p.m., the day and time calculated by astrologers as most auspicious for bathing, the pool was reserved for holy men (Sadhus). It took the 15,000 Sadhus three hours to march down the three-mile route to the water. Most wore saffron robes or loin cloths, but 2,000 of the holiest were naked. Each of the seven Akharas (orders) had its painted elephant, and at the head of each order rode its leader, shaded by a red umbrella. Six of the leaders were in palanquins carried by six men; the chief of the rough...