Word: stewing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...were prepared for semi-starvation by three months' good eating with a daily average of 3,492*calories. Then for six months they were fed two carefully rationed meals a day totaling 1,570 calories. Sample meals: pancakes, syrup, applesauce, cornbread and jam in the morning; potato soup, stew and potatoes in the evening...
...issue which Congressman Taber raised was typical of the new headaches and responsibilities the U.S. had accepted along with the job of trying to bring peace and order into the world. It was true that everything the U.S. shipped to Russia-from electric locomotives to a can of tushonka (stew meat)-was potential grist for the Red Army. It was also true that the U.S., whether it was ready to go as far as economic sanctions or not, was counting on goods from Eastern Europe as a basic part of the Marshall Plan. The chance of sending goods to Russia...
Meanwhile, things have been picking up in the local dinghy department. Last Sunday, while the rest of the College slept off its post-football hangovers, Frank Scully, Dick Braisted, and Stew Clifford led the field home in the freshman qualifying rounds for the dinghy championship finals this week. Scully, assisted by another. Freshman, Jack Gardner, breezed home first in five races and finished second in the sixth...
...Chinese feel that the Wedemeyer mission was only a rubber stamp for a long-held Marshall decision to let China stew in her own juice. Just after Wedemeyer left for home, several Kuomintang elders had a session with the Generalissimo. Tears flowed. Breasts were beaten. Without additional U.S. help and with Russian intervention likely to increase, where could China turn? One leader suggested the inevitable: rapprochement with Russia, and proposed sending Elder Statesman Chen Li-fu to Moscow...
...policy can. be implemented only by recruiting, subsidizing and supporting a heterogeneous array of satellites, clients, dependents and puppets ... a coalition of disorganized, disunited, feeble and disorderly nations, tribes and factions around the perimeter of the Soviet Union . . . [which] cannot in fact be made to coalesce . . . a seething stew of civil strife...