Word: pork
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...needs," says the Rev. William Lawson, a Baptist preacher in Houston. For Mary Davis, a Chicago urban planner, being middle class means "going to a good school, being clean and taking a bath." Evelyn Thompson, a reporter for KOOL-TV in Phoenix, recalling the well-done cuts of cheap pork that poor blacks consume, observes: "You know a black has been assimilated into the middle class if he eats rare meat...
...mixed and often explosive border with Berkeley, the simple restaurant is one of the few places where black and white comfortably coexist. Jackson, a regular customer, gives Lois a friendly pat on the backside and helps himself to biscuits and milk as he waits for his usual order of pork chops, rice and scrambled eggs...
...PRETTY," E.B. White's Charlotte informed Wilbur the Pig. "Nearly all spiders are rather nice-looking. I may not be as flashy as some, but I'll do." And in the clutch, when Mr. Arable was going to cut Wilbur up for pork, she did. "Some pig," she wrote in her web. "Terrific. Radiant. Humble." Mr. Arable let him off with a blue ribbon...
...join the walkout, his tires were slashed, or his radiator was punctured, or his truck was overturned. Part of the underpinning of a Pennsylvania Turnpike bridge near Homewood was dynamited. In Iowa, National Guard helicopters and state police cars had to escort a 71-truck convoy of beef and pork carcasses on their way to packing plants. A total of 1,500 guardsmen were escorting trucks through Ohio. All together, eight states were forced to call out National Guard troops to check the violence...
Andy sells a lot of his "special recipe" barbecue in these restaurants. What his cooks are imitating is the barbecue they still sell out in the country at old converted gas stations with a little shed in back where they cook the pork in a pit, and a gravelled parking lot full of jacked-up Chevelles and the irresistible odor of the cooking. Inside the place, a couple of country boys beside the counter or the beer cooler are flirting with the waitresses who make the plates up from barbecue, potato salad, slaw, and hush-puppies, and put the take...