Word: meats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...often as not his shoes have holes in them. He eats and lives at a low standard. A battalion I visited well to the rear of the frontier had 500 men, only 150 beds. The mess hall for each company consisted of a leanto, two large pots, a meat ax, a couple of knives and some ladles. Bread and bean soup, liberally dosed with olive oil, is the main diet. Yet no one ever hears a Greek soldier complaining of the chow. Most of the men never had it so good. Corporal Elias Papadopoulos is a 25-year-old farmer...
...Louisville Courier-Journal asked, what could really be done by the free nations about Perón and La Prensa? In London, where meat-hungry Britons have tightened their belts while they dickered over the price of Argentine meat, Humorist A. P. Herbert wrote a doughty answer in the Sunday Graphic...
...smoke and drink what they like. He told of two middle-aged women who brought their spry, neat, 80-year-old father in to see him. Another doctor had found a little high blood pressure, and had deprived the old boy of his pipe, his bedtime highball, his red meat, his table salt, his puttering in the garden and his strolls around town. The father had rebelled and the women wanted Alvarez to back up the other doctor...
Prime Minister Clement Attlee, striving to stave off an election until fall (when home killings of meat may have upped the ration and the coal shortage may be eased), tried to rally his men. "Keep your heads," he told a meeting of Labor M.P.s. "Restrain yourselves. Have patience. We shall not yield...
Magazines have long suspected something like this was stirring; they have been getting an extraordinary response to diet stories. Look was deluged with thousands of inquiries on its "basic American diet" in January. Holiday served up its eat-all-you-want Du Pont diet (meat three times daily, plenty of fat, no sugar, salt or flour, half an hour prebreakfast walk) last summer, reprinted it last month and claimed the largest response "to a food story in magazine history...