Word: meats
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...dormant masses in the countryside, MNR representatives moved into the towns and villages around La Paz and Cochabamba to awake the peasants to an awareness of the injustices they had suffered for so long. Were the peasants to continue to work as slaves, the MNR asked, to put meat on the tables of the hacendados, the large estate owners, while they themselves had to eat potatoes...
William Theodore Walton (known on his fans' banners as WILLIAM THE GREAT or WILLIAM THE CONQUEROR) was ready at last for a little serious basketball. As usual, the vegetarian tiger played as if he had dined on red meat all week; as if he had slept sweetly and spent all his waking hours on the practice court; as if his knees were made of steel cables; as if his only icons were the ball and the hoop...
...dinner, while, at the same time, pretending to the padre that I could still talk rationally. I don't remember which was more difficult. In any case, I do remember that with each mouthful of grilled meat, salty potatoes, and watery corn, I experienced what the Bolivians call una revolucion del estomago. The weak electric light that hung above us cast a pale glow on the oily table where we ate. Ray was reserved as usual, so I was unable to determine if he was aware of the depths to which I was rapidly plunging. After he had finished...
...bathroom mirror to examine her eyes. Her face looked glazed, her talk was high-wired, near frenzied with shame and self-doubt. And, not only for the sanpaku, but for the hair, yang of her body, therefore male and ugly, attributing the yangness to 22 years to meat-eating she stuck to the diet and clawed at the hair on her stomach. Macrobiotics had become self-hypnotic: Kimberly would purge herself of the poisons of a lifetime by starving her flesh...
...impact of the strike was widespread. For want of materials, many factories closed or reduced their work hours, including plants owned by Chrysler in Belvidere, Ill., American Motors in Kenosha, Wis., and General Electric in Louisville. Unable to get carcasses, meat-packing plants from Colorado to Illinois shut down, further reducing supplies and setting the scene for additional retail-price hikes. In West Virginia, five coal mines were closed for lack of fuel. Fearful drivers for oil companies refused to take their trucks out, and service stations in many cities closed...