Word: meats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Away from his music, he sometimes seemed like a child. He liked to watch children's programs or boxing on television, and he could shake with laughter watching an unsuspecting guest try to cut meat with a folding knife. The stories that clustered about him bore testimony to the fact that he was (in the words of a friend) at once naive and crafty, simple and complex, gracious and spiteful. When a rehearsal failed to meet his standards, he was capable of kicking over the music stand and storming offstage to rip scores from his studio bookshelves and upset...
...just a rumor, of course, but we've heard that the University buys its meat out in Chicago some two hours (or less) before it is to be condemned. It is also said that the grade of meat purchased is "Utility," which under the Government's classification system ranks below Prime, Choice, and Commercial. Utility is considered better than Canners'-and-Cutters', which may or may not be reassuring...
...thing, the reader must know that the meats are graded according to popular consumption value (i.e. taste) and not according to nutrition. Commercial meat is actually more nutritious than prime or choice. So we mustn't be disturbed about not being good enough for Commercial; it's actually the best, that is, except for the taste...
...afterdeck. A gang of workmen, wielding long-handled flensing knives, sliced off the thick blubber in foot-wide strips. The winches whined again and dragged the naked, bloody carcass 50 ft. farther along the slimy, slippery, half-iced deck to stage two. Here another flensing gang sliced off the meat. A neat, well-directed blow, as from an executioner's ax, severed the backbone at the neck, and the gigantic head (20 ft. long in an average 60-ft. whale) was dragged to the foredeck...
...thing, the emotional ability to form a kind of religion with belief in a future life. In a cave near La Chapelle-aux-Saints, France, a Neanderthal grave has a vault of flat stones to protect the dead man. Beside it are flint tools and a haunch of meat for the dead man's needs. No mere brute, said Dr. Eiseley, could have such tender concern for the dead...