Word: roast
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Finally, faint radio signals from a radio range came in over his set. Blair homed in on them, crossed Alaska's northern coastline just one minute off his schedule. He refueled near Fairbanks, roared east at 25,000 feet across Canada, munching a roast beef sandwich between gulps of oxygen. Nine hours later, he set his Mustang down on the runway at New York's Idlewild airport. He was the first man ever to fly solo across the hazardous North Pole route in a single-engined plane...
...tubby, baby-faced little man, smoking a long cigar, pattered into the dining room of the National Press Club one day last week, ate a lunch of roast beef, carrots & peas with obvious zest, and sat back to hear himself introduced. Then Price Stabilizer Michael Vincent Di Salle got to his feet-an act which added little to his height-and glanced over his shoulder. "I still can't get used to people getting up when I'm introduced," he began. "I always look behind me to see if a bishop has walked in." He paused professionally...
...Hoof. In El Paso, Deputy Customs Collector Herman F. Cherry revealed that a surprise inspection at the Juarez bridge turned up: 1) 32 Ibs. of meat inside a spare tire; 2) an 8-lb. beef roast in a woman's purse; 3) a huge, raw, unwrapped round steak being worn as a girdle...
This was the second such occurrence this year. On November 12, three Adams House students found similar pellets in their roast beef, but no official action was taken at the time...
They talked on Tuesday aboard the presidential yacht after lunch (sea food, soup, roast beef, braised celery, broccoli, beans, chicory salad, cheese & crackers, baked Alaskas, chocolates and assorted nuts). They talked again on Wednesday. At the White House, the Prime Minister passed, twinkling, through the gauntlet of correspondents. In his wake strode towering Ambassador Franks, shortening his ambassadorial step so as not to tread on the ministerial heels. On one occasion Mr. Attlee paused to pose, lighting his pipe. Some photographers missed the action and pleaded with him to light his pipe again. Said the Prime Minister...