Word: meats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...party" label was a good (though unfair) line for Labor-and the Tories knew it. The Tories, who had been hammering away at Labor's timid foreign policy, quickly switched to "bread and butter politics." They attacked high prices, small rations of butter and meat and Labor's failure to build enough houses to replace those destroyed in World War II. New Tory posters appeared showing an infant grumbling, "The way things are, I shall be grown up before I get my house...
...bandits, warlords, Communists and Nationalists skirmished for power and position. None of them, however, won the allegiance of the hard-riding Kazak tribesmen who wandered the empty plains. Islamic nomads of remote Turkish origin, the proud and independent Kazaks went on pitching their flannel tents, eating only meat, playing polo with the inflated skins of whole sheep and 200 men on a team, proclaiming allegiance to Allah alone, and generally thumbing their noses at the march of civilization, as they had since the days of Genghis Khan...
...popular in the West was Givando's article which condemned cattlemen for holding back steers from the market in order to kill government meat controls. In this crusade the Denver post was not successful...
...culprit willingly identified himself as Richard, and seemed delighted to get a ride in one of the squad cars. Said he: "This ain't the same auto you had the last time you arrested me." He and his pals, it developed, had gotten into the meat market twice before, had scored a $63 haul the first time, but had been nabbed on a second try. With forthright gravity, Richard described other details of his criminal career: he had also helped break into a hardware store, a fish market, a dress shop, a dry-cleaning establishment and a candy store...
...that time. Synagogue services are entirely in Hebrew, and men & women sit apart, with their heads covered. The Orthodox Jew is expected to study the Torah every day and to observe the dietary laws with such strictness that separate plates and utensils must be used for cooking milk and meat dishes. On Yom Kippur, Orthodox Jews keep an absolute fast for 24 hours, and should spend about 13 hours at the synagogue in five services. Their strictly regulated life sets them apart from the rest of mankind, and is intended to: with a persistence undiminished by centuries, they feel themselves...