Word: meats
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Real King. After the young animals have learned to trust him, Gebel-Williams teaches them to leap by dangling meat on the end of a stick. A fine leap earns a bravo, a poor one stern-voiced disapproval. (In performances, lazy tigers get a swift kick on their bottoms, good ones may be rewarded with an embrace and a kiss.) "The greatest danger," says Gebel-Williams, "is that they will kill each other." When a fight starts, he wades in and breaks it up with a blow to the snout...
Still, Anglo-Saxon palates were hearty rather than decadent. Lots of meat broths and stews were the order of the day. Salt was obligatory in cheese and butter as well as on meat, making home-brewed ale equally obligatory. All lips smacked through the age of Chaucer...
...Richard Nixon's Washington, John Connally is a throwback to the Lyndonesque. He chews the last bit of meat off his pork chops with both elbows on the table and sometimes speaks in the earthy parables of L.B.J.'s Pedernales folklore. Observing the shrewd, assertive style that Connally brought to Washington as Secretary of the Treasury, Alabama's Congressman George Andrews breathed a sigh of déjà vu: "You look very much like an arm twister. In fact, somebody said you look almost like his twin brother." Says Connally with an innocent smile...
...memorial to Walter Reuther than an expression of the sentiment of the members. Clearly, there is a great degree of protectionism in Congress. Agriculture has put up a strong barrier against protectionism in the past, but there is substantial erosion even there. Should there be an effort to expand meat imports substantially, I think you will find as big a split starting in agriculture as occurred in the unions...
...white men soon start to meld with the nomadic Eskimo commune. But even as the whalers learn to eat meat raw instead of "disgustingly" burning it, forget the calendar and acquire their hosts' language, they also begin to commit offenses born less of malice than of cultural differences...