Word: meat
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Holland seems actually better off than France and Italy in spite of having meat rationing and insisting that tourists keep track of the money they spend. A sure sign of this is that man in Holland is offended if you refuse the cigarette he offers while the Frenchman or Italian does not expect you to take...
...where no one could understand us. Generally comprehension increased if you asked for "viskey" instead of "whiskey," but shopping remained a difficulty. We once solved the problem by inducing a black marketer who wanted to change a few guilders to help us buy the routine quota of Maggi soup, meat, and bisquets before entering monetary negotiations...
...death (1929), though ballet had been a London rage since the 18th Century. Under the stern direction of a tiny Irish-born former Diaghilev dancer named Ninette de Valois, they had modeled their company after the classical Russian patterns. But in 20 years, it had become as British as meat...
...Meat. In Lewiston, Idaho, Cowboy Gene Rambo, onetime world champion broncobuster and bulldogger, suffered his first injury of the season: a wrenched knee while playing golf...
Great Hopes. Business over, the menfolk went downstairs to the long tables loaded with fried chicken, beef pork meat loaf; white and sweet potatoes fixed every way-fried, mashed, baked and roasted; a variety of salads, vegetables, muts, cakes and pies. Everybody ate hearty, and what was left went home with the women...