Word: meats
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Even as a new emergency meat-rationing plan took effect last week, Warsaw's trade emissaries fanned out through Western capitals in a desperate campaign for food and credit. In London, officials from Warsaw's Bank Handlowy met representatives of 20 Western commercial banks to talk about rescheduling loan payments. In Brussels, the European Community agreed to sell Warsaw more meat, dairy products and grain at 15% below the market price. Polish Deputy Premier Mieczyslaw Jagielski flew to Paris and Washington. The veteran negotiator met with President Valery Giscard d'Estaing and won a pledge...
...ferocious competitor. "The 227 wounds I got from the trench mortar didn't hurt a bit at the time," he writes his parents in 1918. "We've killed 3 big bull elk-2 bucks-2 bear-an eagle and a coyote-Grouse all the time -Killed enough meat for the two guides to get married on-" The years pass the tallies mount. Noble critters are immortalized by his marksmanship in Wyoming, Montana, Idaho and Africa. Off Key West and Cuba, tons of tarpon, swordfish and sharks succumb to his brawn, will and, at one point his tommy...
...Shall we, the good and dull of the earth, attempt to compete with the attention getters?" "Hurray for meat loaf!" "People who hang-glide are nuts!" "Yeah, you know what's fun, by God? Petting your dog, tuning up the old Chevy Nova." "More beer!" "Beer here...
...accept the fact that unless we encourage the rich to put their money into stocks, bonds, factories and mines, there will be no jobs for the poor. It is natural enough to envy and even hate the rich, but killing the goose that lays the golden egg puts no meat on the table...
...West Los Angeles because she had made a false injury claim. A few months later, at 2:30 a.m., two of her friends arrived at the café with a sawed-off shotgun, a standard shotgun and a .32-cal. pistol. After forcing nine employees and two customers into a meat freezer and ordering them to kneel facing the wall, the gunmen began shooting. Three of the victims were killed; five were wounded. Franklin Freeman Jr., 22, Ricky Sanders, 25, and Carletha Stewart, 19, the fired waitress, all black, have been charged with the murders. Identifying the men as the killers...