Word: meats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Moon Glasses. Cripps was the walking symbol as well as the architect of Britain's postwar austerity program. Prim and trim, he looked like a governess and talked like one. He was always telling Britons what they could not have. It was not Cripps's fault that meat was scarce but many Britons blamed him for that when he looked coldly through his half-moon glasses and announced that he did not consider meat "an edible substance." His very name suggested the sound of a crunching cold raw carrot, which was, in fact, one of Vegetarian Cripps...
...Fairless: "The average price of all the finished steel we have sold this year has been just under a nickel a pound, and some of our products now sell at less than 3½? . . . What else in the world can you buy for 3½? a pound? Eggs, butter, meat? . . . There is literally nothing in our grocery store at home that Mrs. Fairless can buy for as little as 3½? a pound ... If you lived among the cliff dwellers of New York City, and if you wanted a little potting soil to put around your geranium plants on your...
...thigh of lamb to be my meat...
...Fearful Joy, by Joyce Cary. The life & times of Tabitha Baskett; a new novel by an Englishman who writes in the old meat-and-marrow tradition of English fiction (TIME...
...Meat ... In Annapolis, Md., members of the Maryland Turkey Producers Association met to talk over ways & means of making the public turkey-conscious, sat down to a lunch of veal cutlets...