Word: meatlessness
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...point where incentive to raise animals was almost destroyed. In 1959's second quarter, meat consumption increased 14% while production slumped 6.3% below 1958. Hastily, Gomulka raised meat prices 25%, but it was too late. Long queues now form daily before near-empty butcher shops, and meatless Mondays have been decreed in Warsaw...
...liner Constitution one day last week and looked around Manhattan. They were a long way from their Camaldolese* monastery, high in the Apennines, where they live in solitary cells at least 20 feet apart, where recreation is a twice-weekly chat with their fellows, and a full meal comes meatless and only once a day. The 900-old order had selected Dom Augustine Modotti to found a new monastery somewhere in the U.S. (there are already more than 20 U.S. applications for membership), and he was off with his companion, Dom Aliprando Catani, to look over prospective sites in Nebraska...
...villain, Mr. Universe (Steve Reeves), idly nibbles at a white orchid and pouts: "You've been avoiding me, Athena, and I'm full of acid and electricity." One day he wraps his triceps around Adam's neck, but Adam remembers his Commando tactics, flattens the meatless wonder and gets the girl. As one of her sisters remarks: "It's wonderful what you can do without muscles...
...root, Perón's plight was of his own making. Argentina is feverish with economic ills: black markets, meatless days, a steaming inflation, unemployment. All these troubles are at least partly the effects of Perón's mismanaged scheme to industrialize the country at the expense of its grain farms and cattle ranches...
What they do not explain is that in modern Britain, Beefeaters have kept their uniforms and little else. They eat as little beef as everyone else in the meatless isles (not more than 23? worth weekly on the ration), and largely confine themselves to guarding the Tower by day, checking files and posing for tourists' photographs. They might be called bureaucrats...