Word: meats
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Rocky is a meat-and-potatoes exemplar of the American dream, a working stiffs contender who battles for his dignity against odds that seem overwhelming. Rocky III, premiering just two weeks ahead of the Cooney-Holmes championship match, extends a fresh set of sweat-stained victories to Rocky's loyal fans...
...empty shell used for transporting cargo and troops. It might be uncomfortable enough with several hundred soldiers as its only source of heat, but a single passenger sitting on a bare metal floor in the darkness was not enough to keep the temperature above that of a meat locker. The last sentence from the pilot: "Maybe the passenger would like a whisky and a steak dinner?" They were not offered, nor do I expect they will be in the days to come...
...first, cards came as promotions with tobacco, candy, meat, and cookies, but the manufacturers endeared themselves to generations of traders, flippers, and hoarders by including gum. The horrible, brittle pink slab takes about five minutes to break in, chews well for four, and then makes your jaw hurt more than two hours parked on Inspiration Point...
...seemed more trouble than they were worth. In the Detroit area, for example, 40 sweeps netted a grand total of 34 illegal aliens. At the Utica Packing Co., some 30 miles north of Detroit, 20 agents rounded up 24 suspected aliens in a search that effectively shut down the meat-packing plant for several hours and cost its owners an estimated $8,000 in lost business. As it turned out, none of those taken into custody were in the U.S. illegally. All were back at their jobs by the next...
...spokesman for the Band of Mercy said the group made the raid to protest the work of Kern, who used the bunnies in her "Rabbit Production and Slaughter" class, which studies ways of raising rabbits for their meat...