Word: meats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...satisfactorily explain what makes a great chess player. Having a mathematical bent is not enough. The leading U.S. masters come from all walks of life, and include a psychologist, a wholesale meat merchant, a chemist, an editor, a college student, a pharmacist and a soldier. There has never been a top woman player. Reshevsky thinks that women are too easily rattled to make strong players. Of composure and self-confidence, the two most important ingredients after ability, Reshevsky has a full measure. He displayed both when a spectator asked him to explain the one-sidedness of his match score against...
When the kingdom of Israel was governed by the Law, farmers scrupulously deserted their fields at the end of each six-year period. Throughout the sabbatical year, called shmita, the whole land lay fallow. The ancient Jews ate only meat and the grain they had stored, trusting in the Lord's bounty to see them through their man-made drought...
This device satisfied some Orthodox Jews, but not the strictly observant. In a handful of Orthodox settlements, hungry farmers stoically watched their idle fields and the fruit rotting on their trees. To vary their meat diet, some Orthodox city dwellers furtively bought apples and tomatoes from Arab hawkers, determined not to purchase produce grown by Jews...
...they will gain too much weight. Eisenhower eats anything, but he keeps the portions small and averages only 1,800 to 2,500 calories a day; Stevenson scarcely touches butter, fried foods and pastries, and gets much of his 1,700 calories in salads, fruits, vegetables and milk, with meat only once...
...lover of good eating, I urge the Central Kitchen to return meat to its rightful place in our luncheon chop suey. If they do not, I shall be forced to turn in my board number and take the rest of my meals in Crinstown. --Mark Jacobs...