Word: meats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...least three outstanding virtues. The first is simply that it is a collection of E. B. White; and that is virtue enough for any book. It is not so superb a book as some of his others--that would be too much to ask. One Man's Meat, after all, is probably the finest volume of essays in American literature...
...resume and a nearly complete sampling of his career and his work. Ranging in date from 1935 to 1953, its contents include pieces in each of the styles presented in previous homogeneous collections: parables, satires, and parodies (Quo Vadimus), essays of the more classic form (One Man's Meat), notes from the New Yorker's "Talk of the Town" (Every Day Is Saturday and The Wild Flay), and songs and poems (The Fox of Pea-pack...
...cholesterol in their blood, and some of these have been carefully followed and lab-tested for two years or more. This diet is not extreme or hard to follow, since it may include as much as two ounces of fat a day. The doctors exclude butter, cream, fatty meat, egg yolk and cheese. However, they let the patients have skim milk...
...Theodore V. Purcell, a Jesuit and assistant professor of industrial relations at Chicago's Loyola University, set out in 1949 to get answers to the question from the workers themselves. With the cooperation of both company and union, he spent 44 months talking to Swift & Co. meat-packing workers in Chicago's Pack-ingtown. Father Purcell became known as "the Packinghouse Padre" and (from wearing a white coat to meet sanitation rules) "the White-Frocked Priest...
...week in Moscow, Molotov told the French ambassador that the Kremlin's priority list for Berlin is: 1) a Big Five conference, to include Red China; 2) European security, including the German question; and 3) "world disarmament." It sounded like the same old thing, all wrapping and no meat...