Word: meats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...great British meat hunt warmed up last week. Prodded by the swelling protest from meat-hungry Britons (TIME, Feb. 19), the government sent a trade expedition flying off to reopen negotiations with Argentina. In command was John Edwards, Economic Secretary to the Treasury. Edwards' task: to get a compromise deal that would save face for Socialist bulk-buyers who last year refused to pay Argentina's price...
...brought to his G.I. a complaint that the envelopes G.I.s used for letters home were sticking together.* He ordered a division G-4 to provide fresh meat for his units seven out of ten days. When the G-4 mentioned the lack of refrigerators, Ridgway snapped, "The winter will give you time to work out the refrigeration problem." Back at his headquarters, he called in to his aide, Lieut. Colonel Walter Winton, "Walter, get word to Signal Corps to brush up on message pickups...
...government's house down. Each time they failed. Last week, on the first birthday of the present Parliament, the Tories forced another vote in the House of Commons. This time they won, but it was a hollow victory. The previous votes were on major confidence motions-coal, steel, meat, defense, groundnuts-on which a government defeat would have meant a general election. The sixth vote was on a minor issue: a Tory bill to extend from 25 to 60 miles the range within which private truckers might compete with nationalized transport. The Laborites made no great effort...
...pointed to a tin hut, empty except for a stack of blankets, a little stove and a big pot] is better. Rain makes more noise on the roof, but it doesn't come in. It's true we don't eat so much meat as we did, but there are other things I never dreamed of. Look at that little pipe by the road there. Water comes if you turn the top piece...
Epee matches are the closest thing in modern fencing to the duels of yore. Any part of the body is fair meat and only three touches are required to win a bout. Captain Win Overholser has been cutting up his opponents in good style this season. He placed fourth in the intercollegiate nationals last year and has the best record on the squad this season. A little more speed could make him really great...