Word: meats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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proim. A prime cut of meat in Brooklyn that too often tastes like hawss-meat. See NATIONAL AFFAIRS, The Cheaters...
Wires & Wax. The cheating was an old story. In the cheaper shops where the ignorant or the unwary traded, callous butchers were caught using a variety of methods. Some merely weighed their thumbs with the meat. Some attached a wire from the scale to a foot pedal that they controlled from below, or blocked the customer's side of the scale with canned goods, or laid meat on a long sheet of waxed paper, then pulled on the end of the paper to increase the weight reading. Others weighed one cut of meat but substituted an inferior or smaller...
...people should be thankful . . . Look and see what some of these unhappy people were doing before they came to Warner Bros." But the actors were not buying that. Most echoed Maverick's James Garner, who makes a reported $1,750 a week: "I feel like a slab of meat hanging there; every once in a while they cut off a piece...
...boom has given the 10 million Australians a standard of living (per capita income: $1,232) that ranks with that of the top nations outside the U.S., and is higher than Great Britain's. Australians eat more meat (nearly 300 Ibs. annually), consume more fruit, cereals and sugar than either Americans or Britons. Except for the U.S. and Canada, they own more motor vehicles (244 for every 1,000 people), enjoy more TV sets (70 for every 1,000) and telephones (200 per 1,000) than almost any other nation. All this Australia gets from a burgeoning industry...
...long weekend. The original novel required readers interested only in literary privy-peeping to wear out their forefingers spelling through long passages devoted, with some success, to such matters as scene-setting and characterization. Return has little more scene-setting than a limerick, and the characterization is negligible. The meat of the book is as strong-flavored as bear steak-"Jennifer lay awake in the dark, smiling. She touched the welts on her thighs, running her fingers over them hard so that the pain burned all through her and her teeth gleamed white in the dark room...