Word: pork
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...with the embarrassment of proud men who do not want to seem too visibly interested in a visiting celebrity. Later, at a gathering of pensioners, Owen is introduced to say a brief word. "Certainly a brief word," he says. "I wouldn't want to keep you from your pork pies...
...series of coalition Cabinets involving Republicans, Social Democrats and Socialists. The small reformist Republican Party is particularly interested in fiscal conservatism. The Social Democrats are vigorously anti-Communist and pro-Europe. The Socialists are continually torn between an ideological affinity with the Communists, their pro-Western loyalties and pork-barrel reasons for remaining in government...
Word spread that the U.S. had abandoned the giant commissary at Newport, setting off a frenzy of looting by some 3,000 Vietnamese. As burglar alarms brayed, looters wheeled off shopping carts filled with sugar, medicines and frozen pork chops that began immediately to thaw and drip hi the blazing sun. Cops in the nearby parking lot watched with amusement, occasionally plucking a few items for themselves from passing shopping carts as a kind of exit toll. Finally a truckload of military police arrived, firing M-16 bursts into the air, and the looting stopped...
...orthodox Muslims as "spooky believing" for holding that Allah is a spirit. To them, Allah is the Supreme Black Man among a race of divine black men. The rituals and practices of the Nation of Islam, however, are Muslim indeed: prayer five times daily facing Mecca, abstinence from pork and alcohol, no gambling and a puritanical sex code...
...first two days of trading, not a single sale was made in any of European-American Bank's 104 branches in the New York City area. Trading was brisk on half a dozen U.S. commodity exchanges, where gold-futures contracts were being traded along with futures for frozen pork bellies, hogs, cattle and eggs. In the first half-hour of frenzied trading at Chicago's Mercantile Exchange, dealers bought and sold no fewer than 452 contracts for future delivery-the biggest opening on the exchange, they said, since boneless beef made its debut as a traded commodity...