Word: meats
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...carnival rides attempted gaiety to the music of a prewar Harry James record. Pathetic crowds surrounded the few booths selling candied apples or thin bits of herring on hard rolls. Missing was the pungent smell of broiling sausage, for an epidemic of foot-and-mouth disease has made meat, and especially beef, scarce in East Germany. Across the street from the carnival, a lone, scraggly Christmas tree shared its place with the huge model of a Russian rocket...
They examined the map of the floor plan of a suburban Los Angeles supermarket that they had cased earlier. Each member was assigned to a particular spot: two men at the meat counter, one at canned soups, a woman with an infant at the baby-food section. Then they synchronized their watches and headed for the store, took their positions, and waited impatiently for H-hour. At last it came: sweeping through their assigned sectors, the 40 people began sticking small cards in the merchandise-on top of a ham, beneath cans of dog food, behind jars of borsch. They...
...reason why it shou d not be fed to humans too. Produced in marketable quantities, it may turn out to be a bargain. Low-grade oil sells tor slightly more than 1? per lb., and a pound of good protein has the nutrient value of 5 lbs. of lean meat...
...wolf. Naturally, he killed a few cows now and then, and why not? Man had eliminated the buffalo, and Gro-Pup doesn't grow on trees. But his private life was exemplary. When he grew up he fell in love at first bite and became a thoroughly respectable meat-winner...
...enjoying every minute of the terrible time he gave himself. He lived through one winter in a windy cabin in the New Jersey woods within horseback ride of the Princeton library. Theories about food and sex complicated his life. Food was either all vegetables or, for a time, all meat. Once his wife tried to kill herself with a pistol. For one thing, she was depressed about life in a snowbound cabin on a no-sex basis...