Word: mincemeat
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bainter), their son Wayne (Dick Haymes) and their daughter Margy (Jeanne Grain) go to the big State Fair. Farmer Frake's heart is set on winning the Grand Award with his titanic boar. Blue Boy. Mrs. Frake's hopes reside in her crock of heavily spiked mincemeat. Wayne meets and falls for a redhead (Vivian Blaine) who sings with Tommy Thomas' band, and Margy picks up with a Des Moines reporter (Dana Andrews...
Blue Boy, melancholic with love for a redheaded sow, acts his age in time to triumph. One of the judges yields to the beast in him when he tastes Mrs. Frake's brandied mincemeat, so she too triumphs. The son and daughter also finally win their hearts' desires. (Good bit: Margy's and the reporter's innocent embrace when "their" horse wins a harness race, their embarrassed withdrawal, their sudden, serious kiss...
...Germans in 1940 did in France, the Russians hacked and slashed into the defense zones, cutting them to mincemeat, swallowing the pieces separately. Last week, after Polotsk, Borisov and Slutsk fell, giant jaws closed on Minsk, the last great Nazi stronghold in White Russia...
...system of defenses anchored on lakes and swamps; then crossed the Volkhov River over shattered ice and the flotsam & jetsam of a bridge the Germans blew up. Moscow's claim: 15,000 Germans killed, 3,000 captured. Last week the armies of Meretzkov and Govorov threatened to make mincemeat of Marshal von Küchler's battered forces...
...upper-income groups had once eaten the bulk of the nation's meat, low-income groups the bulk of canned goods. Now meat would soon be shared & shared alike-and even beans ("the poor man's food") now had high point values. Precious few foods (examples: olives, mincemeat, popcorn) remained unrationed. Cook books, vegetable gardens and a knowledge of dietetics became more highly to be prized than can openers or rubies...