Word: meats
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...phrase first used by a Negro vaudeville veteran, Dewey ("Pigmeat") Markham, to introduce a series of blackouts (Judge: "Have you ever been up before me?" Defendant: "I don't know-what time do you get up?"). Pig-meat himself is now on Laugh...
...Convention than the Democratic. He was surprised himself at his diminished hatred for Nixon. The man still suffered from slickness. "His ability to slide off the question and return with an answer is as implicit in the work of his jaws as the ability to bite a piece of meat." Yet, adds Mailer, adversity seems to have mellowed, even deepened him. "The new Nixon had finally acquired some of the dignity of the old athlete and the old con -he had taken punishment, he knew the detailed schedule of pain in a real loss, there was an attentiveness...
...Inferno, where the first circle of hell is peopled by the great men of antiquity?Homer, Socrates, Plato?who, too valuable to be thrown into the pit, were consigned to limbo. Mavrino is an institute carrying out KGB research projects, and as a prison it is bearable. There is meat. There is some comfort. There are even women. Yet this is still slave labor of the mind, and transfer to the labor camps can happen at the whim of an "administrative decision...
America's senior dissenter started writing books before the turn of the century and since then has turned out 90 volumes that attacked Chicago meat packers, Wall Street bankers, capitalist publishers, and just about everybody else in the Establishment. But last week, "the king of the muckrakers" had kind words for everyone around him. At the Bound Brook, N.J., nursing home where he lives, a mellow Upton Sinclair beamed as he leaned over in his chair and blew out the candles on his 90th birthday cake...
...some legal authority over the men in the limousines-and occasionally exercises it. In a recent letter, the FCC sharply rebuked the National Broadcasting Company for not informing viewers that Chet Huntley had substantial cattle interests when he went on the air to criticize tough new federal rules on meat inspection. In another peremptory communication, the commission asked the three major networks-NBC, CBS and ABC-to respond within 20 days to "hundreds of complaints" of "bias" in their coverage of the Democratic National Convention in Chicago...