Word: meats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...when to pause during controversial parts of a bill so that a Senator could break in, Crockett could riffle through bills at the rate of 60 pages in 20 minutes (his record: 300 bills in less than two hours). To keep his voice in condition, he ate no meat, went to bed at 9:30 during sessions, lived in country air 16 miles from Washington...
Mamie's father, John Doud-a prosperous meat packer who retired from business in Boone, Iowa to leisure in a big house in Denver at the age of 36-did not oppose this female whimsy. But he was firm on the subject of Sunday afternoon tours in his Packard twin-six. "Papa," Mamie's sister Mabel recalls, "was dreadful. We all had to go." As a result, one afternoon in 1915, when the family was wintering in San Antonio, Mamie was bundled off on a drive to Fort Sam Houston. Then & there, she met her husband...
When Ike skyrocketed to power and responsibility in World War II, Mamie stayed out of the limelight, and settled down in Washington's Wardman Park Hotel. She sat out the war playing mahjong and pooling meat-ration coupons with seven other war-separated generals' wives. They had dinner together almost every night. Mamie did not take her turn at cooking, but she always washed the dishes. After the war, in New York, Washington, Paris, Mamie stayed on in the background, and her friends predict that if she goes to the White House, she will still avoid the spotlight...
...days later, as if to justify A.P. Herbert's words, a respectable meat merchant of Watford was haled into court for "the unlawful and malicious wounding" of a burglar whom he had shot as the man crept into his bedroom at 4:30 a.m. one morning in February. The Watford judge forgave the merchant the crime on the grounds that he had probably shot "in panic," and dismissed him with a $60 fine "for costs...
...were destroyed in battle. The average occupancy is more than three people to every room; in some there are nine and ten. Some 2,000 of its 8,000 workers are unemployed; the rest work only at harvest time. From month to month, Ebolitani rarely see a piece of meat. They have no plumbing; typhus is a periodic visitor...