Word: pork
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...supermarkets of Chicago, Carl Sandburg's "hog butcher for the world," pork chops that sold in September for 98$ per Ib. recently brought $1.19. "I'm no longer just buying meat-I'm investing in it," grumbled one typically exasperated shopper. Throughout the nation last week, food prices were a major concern. AFL-CIO Boss George Meany complained that in his favorite Mrs. Adler's matzoh-ball soup, the number of malzoh balls per can had sunk from four to three, in effect raising the price. Humorist Art Buchwald fantasized that President Nixon will lake...
...back to Peking, his residence in exile since 1970. There, in the guesthouse that Richard Nixon had occupied two weeks earlier, Sihanouk granted an interview to TIME Correspondent Jerrold Schecter. "You can write," said the Prince, as he offered Schecter hors d'oeuvres of duck and roast pork with his chopsticks, "that you were served by a royal, anti-imperialistic head of state." His chief points...
Then amid platters of duck, sweet and sour carp, braised pork, dumplings, cabbage and mushrooms, beer and port wine, the mood softens. Toasts are offered with fiery 140-proof mao-tai, and the conversation turns to the philosophy of war and military strategy. How has Chinese nuclear strategy changed in the last three years? Keng does not reply. The nonresponse may confirm that there has been a fierce debate and struggle between those in the military who would push to produce a modern technical army with nuclear weapons and those who would follow the wisdom of Chairman Mao and retain...
Camera crews went on official side trips to communes and factories, and visited an army base. CBS's Dan Rather ventured into a Peking short-order shop where he found, to no one's great surprise, Chinese eating such things as pork stew and noodles. Trying to pick up any scrap of news, everybody followed every move Mrs. Nixon made. NBC's Barbara Walters, one of three women included in the press group, hovered so close to the First Lady that other members of the press contingent nicknamed her "No. 2." Mrs. Nixon, in fact, should...
Nixon Administration officials always expected a "bulge" in some prices after the expiration of last year's freeze, but what has been happening at the supermarket meat counter looks more like an upheaval. Retail beef and lamb prices have reached 20-year highs; pork prices, which slipped 16.6% early last year, are again climbing toward record levels. Just since the start of 1972, a Manhattan housewife has had to pay 12.6% more for a pound of pork chops...