Word: meats
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Surprises All Around. That was stretching it some. Violence and confusion have been the country's unhappy lot ever since the military toppled Arturo Frondizi 16 months ago and installed Puppet President José Maria Guido in his place. As the once prosperous land of grain and meat fell into economic chaos (the cost of living soared 50% last year), the military promised constitutional elections and a return to democracy. But the soldiers could not agree on when to hold elections, or how much democracy to allow the 3,000,000 followers of exiled Dictator Juan...
...people whose stomachs are majoring in English, there is Linda Wolfe's The Literary Gourmet, which contains carefully researched and ably presented recipes for meals that occur in literature, such as the bake meat pies that Geoffrey Chaucer's franklin loved and the boeuf en daube that was the special triumph of Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Ramsay in To the Lighthouse-"It was rich; it was tender; it was perfectly cooked...
Even though students come back from his cooking classes wanting to make crepes suzette for breakfast, his recipes are interesting and responsible and worth a cross-check with others. Dione Lucas' books (The Cordon Bleu Cook Book, The Meat and Poultry Cook Book) are certainly above average, although hardly on the level of Escoffier...
...feel they have had few glimpses of glory. Many have been racked with illness and bedded down in squalor. They have slogged through colorless tasks, from building chicken houses to digging sewers. They have wrestled with tongue-twisting languages. They have gagged on incredible foods containing everything from cat meat to sheep intestines to fish heads. They have cursed the mistakes of their superiors and muttered in fury at the ignorance and inertia among the natives they are trying to help. Six volunteers have died; 248 quit or were fired...
...Secretaries. Four Navy Secretaries. Three Air Secretaries. Five Treasury Secretaries. And an economy in a mess. The number of Argentine bankruptcies increased 46% last year, the cost of living rose 50%, the peso dropped 67%, and the gross national product actually slipped 3.9%. Argentina's wheat crop and meat production-the country's two main exports-finished disappointingly low, and the nation's balance-of-payments deficit soared to $320 million. Argentina's total gold and foreign exchange reserves have also dropped from $351 million to $185 million-only a shade more than those of Morocco...