Word: meats
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Councillor ticked off the items on the menu for the victorious players: antipasto, ravioli, meat balls, and Italian wine...
...Right to 89$ Meat...
...have heard of the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, but from where do the poor get the right to a TV set, a car and 89? meat? If we use as a model socialist Scandinavia or Communist Russia, the poor will have luxuries at the expense of the liberty of taxpayers who have earned these luxuries...
...reality of the new poverty lies in its contrast to U.S. affluence, and it is heightened by the constant, often self-congratulatory talk about that affluence. It is the poverty of the Harlem woman who says, "I'm tired of 49? meat; I want some 89? meat just once." It is the poverty of people who have a refrigerator, assert their right to own a TV set, may genuinely need a car, should visit a dentist. Even if this poverty is not like any earlier poverty or the poverty of much of the rest of the world...
...still die yearly from diseases of malnutrition, and many of the poor are poorly fed. The official U.S. poverty definition is based on the Department of Agriculture's "economy" food plan ("essentially for emergency use"): large helpings of bread, rice, dried beans and peas, cereals, rare servings of meat, no out-of-season or convenience foods...