Word: meals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Rustling, once a matter of cutting animals out of a herd and skillfully altering brands, was long ago motorized. But this year it has spread like a rash all over the meal-hungry face of the nation: ¶ Near Milford, Mich., thieves killed two prize steers, cut off the hindquarters, stuck a $50 bill on one carcass for the farmer...
...from the war, had dinner in bed. He had chicken & gravy, creamed potatoes, black-eyed peas, tomatoes, buttered biscuits and iced tea. He ate hungrily, flashing appreciative grins at his mother. Looking down at him, at the skinny outline of his body under the sheet, she thought: "The first meal I've cooked Jimmy in five years. Will it be his last supper?" But she smiled back...
...Argentine Navy treated the U-530's crew of 54 men to a hot meal and a haircut, then interned them in a Navy rest camp. Skipper Wermoutt's story: on V-E day, the U-530 was operating in the North Atlantic. He had decided to surrender at Mar del Plata. He did not explain why it had taken him more than two months to get there, why the sub had jettisoned its deck guns, why the crew members carried no identification, nor what had happened to the ship...
Happily Ever After. In Stamford, Conn., John Kamenski, 34, suing for divorce, testified that his wife Sophie would let him sit on a chair only at meal time, made him stand up or go to bed the rest of the time, gave him only a dime a week out of his $50 pay envelope because, she said, "No married man needs more than that...
...shall find my father. I would start asking so many questions. Pop would not answer all of them. He would want to forget the war now that he was home. By the time we got home it would be lunch time. He would then eat his first home cook meal in one and a half years. I am sure we shall have a very fancy lunch. After about an hour eating, filling quite full, mom will ask me to get the schoch out and start on the drinks. (Oh Boy.) At about three, pop will want some good old modern...