Word: meats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...none is in a sadder state of repair-than the Catholic University of Lublin. Its run-down main building still bears the pockmarks left by World War II shells. Its students live five to a room, and the thin stew they get for lunch could well stand more meat. But as all Poles know, there is one thing that Lublin has in abundance. "Throughout all the difficult years." says the rector, Father Marian Rechowicz, "we survived on spirit...
...bill." But if Johnson foresaw a problem, he and his fellows also had created a precedent. By taking their stand against Morse and Talmadge during the public debate, and backing up a majority conviction with a strong vote for the authorization, the Senate had virtually pledged itself to resist meat-ax cuts when the appropriations come around...
Thousands of Italians who once had meat only once a week are now eating meat daily. The evening peace of every stone-walled town is broken by the noise of motor scooters as the local youths tear up and down the ancient streets. Visitors to the Milan fair came away dazzled by the rich fabrics, handsome machinery that Italy can and is producing. Poverty remains a dismal view down many a dark alley-but compared to what it was like before, for many there has been an increase in hope and a diminution of despair...
Plentiful Food. Long queues, once the most characteristic street scene in La Paz, have disappeared. Instead of lining up for supplies of subsidized food and then rushing to sell them on the black market for a tenfold profit, Bolivians shop from plentiful stocks. The free price of bread and meat is about one-third the old black rate. Farm production will be up 59% by the end of the year. The boliviano has come down from its crazy peak of 13,000 to the dollar, and has been averaging...
When Tom Spies was a rawboned youngster in the cotton, corn and cattle country of northeast Texas' Red River valley, there was enough food (Tom grew to burly quarterback build), but the average farm diet was deadly monotonous. It consisted of the three Ms-meal, meat and molasses, the meal being corn meal and the meat fat back or side meat. A related fact-though no one at the time suspected the connection-was that every year the South had 400,000 new cases of pellagra (Italian for rough skin). The victims' feet and hands (sometimes neck...