Word: meats
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...where coats are still shapeless and shoddy, the well-dressed visitors brought gifts of fresh fruit, flowers, candies and toys. They would have brought much more, but the East German Grenzpolizei refused to allow any merchandise across the border that might display the abundance and quality of Western goods. Meat or sausages, phonograph records and stereo tapes, fur and leather goods, clothes or any products in cans, bottles or sealed packages were all strictly verboten...
...reacted first with disbelief, then outrage when government officials refused to reconsider. In bypassing scores of marginally operated highland estates, said Cerro, the government had violated the spirit, if not the precise letter, of its own law. The company pointed out that its sheep produce three times as much meat as the neighboring Indian herds; furthermore, it ran the ranch as a nonprofit enterprise, selling the meat at cost to feed its 15,000 workers...
...response was instantaneous. A New Orleans meat packer shipped two tons of soap directly to Rod. Children gift wrapped individual bars, rushed them off by airmail. Other contributions inundated the Clarion Herald. A Baton Rouge TV station weighed in with 700 Ibs. of soap, a New Orleans seventh-grade civics class with 700 bars...
...House debut with trout cooked in Chablis as the entrée at a luncheon for former British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan. The Kennedys' treasure later won international renown with such dishes as chicken in champagne sauce and an incomparable quenelles de brochet. But one President's meat is another's poisson, and under L.B.J. the mâitre soon found himself tasting such Texas delicacies as Pedernales River chili and purée of garbanzos, a pease porridge cold that, in René's mournful words, is "already...
...statement deploring the mutual excommunications that Roman Catholic and Orthodox leaders had hurled at each other in 1054. Within months, it is expected that Paul will announce changes in Catholic discipline, such as a relaxation of the rules against mixed marriages and abolition of the compulsory Friday abstinence from meat...