Word: meats
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Yemenite Jews ate meat only about once a week. But they drank oceans of tea and coffee, and heady, 100-proof arrack distilled from citrus fruits and sugar-beet molasses...
...Because they had adopted the Ashkenazic diet with plenty of meat and especially fats...
...Kremlin dinner, Nikita Khrushchev cried that Russia would abandon Communism "when the shrimp learns to whistle." Wagging a finger at Indians in Bangalore, Nikita warned that each beast has its own food: "You cannot force the buffalo to eat meat; the tiger cannot be made to eat grass." To labor leaders in London he explained the Soviet opposition to nuclear inspection teams: "We don't want people walking into our bedrooms...
...Master's Voice. In awe, the surrounding Lobi tribesmen referred to him as "Kongo Massa," or "Master of the Bush." But the Lobi men are hunters, and Matta's hippos and antelopes meant meat to them. Skins could be sold to white trophy hunters, and tribal Africans pay high prices for elephants' sexual organs for use in fertility rites. Matta had only nine men to protect an area twice the size of Long Island. He begged the chiefs to restrain the poachers. That failing, he appealed to his own French superiors in Abidjan for more money...
...Walter Raleigh, Sir Francis Drake and the Frenchman Jean Nicot (after whom nicotine is named) all helped to popularize smoking, considered it good for the health. In 1614 a Scottish doctor named William Barclay wrote that tobacco "prepares the stomach for the acceptance of meat, makes the voice clear and the breath sweet," pushed it as an antidote for "hypochondric melancholy" and such diseases as arthritis and epilepsy...