Word: meats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...oldest war in the world." To the "Moles of Nasan" the usually frugal French commissary sent Australian beefsteaks, fried potatoes, vegetables, fresh bread, Algerian wine and 3,000 bottles of champagne-one bottle for every four men in the dusty, embattled airstrip. Thai and Vietnamese troops got frozen meat, dried fish and rice; the North Africans had wine, live sheep and goats, brought in by airlift. In a dugout mess 25 feet underground, Nasan Commander Two-Star General Jean Gilles passed out cigars and liquors to his staff. Said bearlike General Gilles: "We've done a nice job here...
...Fetish foods for health and strength-highly advertised breakfast cereals for children, Ovaltine for insomniac adults, red meat and potatoes for laborers...
...Sometimes," said Dr. Kaufman, "a woman who resents her husband serves him none of the foods he enjoys. If her resentment reaches intense hatred, meat is scorched, bread is stale, vegetables are cold and soggy. The husband begins his retaliation by criticizing her food, and ends by paying her alimony...
...instance, students no longer eat certain kinds of pies because the sanitation staff found they tended to create gastroenteritis. In '49 a rash of sickness was traced to a contaminated meat cutter. Dining hall employees now get lectures on how to handle food, and a diarrhea epidemic in Andover court was stopped a few years ago when Dr. George Moore found its source in a clogged sewage system...
Tight Budget. In Milwaukee, when police arrested Anton Lagozny for drunkenness and asked how he had accumulated a bank balance of more than $12,000 on a $50-a-week salary, he replied: "I live frugally, spending money only for meat, beer and whisky." Bare Essentials. In Batavia, Ohio, after jurors in a murder trial protested to Judge Harry Britton that his "no newspapers" ban was putting them hopelessly behind in their comic strips, the court instructed bailiffs to clip out the funnies and distribute them daily...