Word: roasting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...blue-eyed Texan who raised his total kills to six and became the fifth ace of the Korean war (he shot down seven enemy planes in the Pacific during World War II). It was the day before his 31st birthday. He and his flight-mates feted their victory with roast beef and whisky...
...Coventry's Friendship Committee. The same day he received a shocking piece of news: his daughter's fiance, Lieut. John Godfrey, a 19-year-old Coventry lad, had been killed in Korea. But that didn't stop him, or Coventry, or the dinner of scarce roast beef and Yorkshire pudding he had arranged for the Guildhall ceremony...
...convention. "We must get our own defense production program rolling in high gear," he said, "and we must find the way to do this without bringing on renewed inflation ... It means restrained and responsible actions by businessmen, farmers-and workers, too . . ." Later, after a $15-a-plate roast beef dinner, Price Stabilizer Mike DiSalle had his try. The delegates obviously weren't interested in what he had to say. They chatted among themselves and paid so little attention that, at one point, DiSalle broke into his prepared speech and asked them to listen. The Transport Workers' bellicose Mike...
...they had to leave their dog, Skippy, behind, giving him to a kindly neighbor boy. Last week a tattered, footsore and weary Skippy turned up in Morris, and took his accustomed place at the Fossen dinner table. Any doubt of Skippy's identity vanished when he passed up roast beef to gorge on lettuce and tomato salad with mayonnaise, long his favorite dish...
This represents a basic change in University policy. Until now the University has charged the same for all dinners, roast beef or chipped beef regardless...