Word: spartan
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...city of Acre is now a steel mill town. In Abraham's Beersheba the smells of Bedouin camel saddleries and Turkish coffee are giving way to the smoke of a ceramics factory and the fumes of vans trucking Ethiopian hides up the new road from Elath. Settlers whose Spartan waves often do without even a dress-up blouse for the Sabbath have opened up nearly 500 new farm communities, and Israel now grows two-thirds of its food. Behind the orange groves of the Philistine coast spread huge chicken ranches where Israel's No. 1 meat fare...
...Spartan scorn for the good life. Last week he returned from a vacation cruise aboard the yacht of a wealthy friend. Was he by any chance accepting a questionable favor? "Only demagogues," snaps Muñoz, "cannot afford to be seen anywhere except drinking bad gin with a man who has no shoes on." He has a mighty temper and lusty tastes. There is only one liquor he is cool toward -much to the distress of the promoters of Puerto Rico's excellent rums. After chain-smoking most of his life, he gave it up nine years...
...books (chops), a bagful of well-used baby diapers (canned goods), the false-bottom market bag, fake laundry packages (packaged meat), bulky, many-pocketed coats, stretch socks and slacks (candy and cigarettes). In a Chicago suburb, aware of a National Food Store security guard on her trail, one Spartan shopper waddled two blocks down the street before she let loose the frozen turkey under her skirt...
...European airlines insist that they are perfectly within their rights just so long as a slice of bread is the underpinning for their repasts. Though they appreciate the free publicity provided by Pan Am's sandwich crusade, they intend to fight any move to make sandwiches more Spartan. Said a Swissair spokesman: "Every man is entitled to his concept of a sandwich...
...Vaselli enlisted in the army for one single purpose: to save enough money to buy eight mules and a partnership with a go-ahead drayman. Even then, Vaselli had one overriding maxim: "Never spend in a month more than you make in a week." By this Spartan pecuniary principle, Vaselli waxed rich before World War I, contracting to haul away the garbage that householders had been tossing into Rome's fly-fouled streets...