Word: stewing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...resistance movement has spread far and wide. The Pentagon has just announced that it will stop serving beef stew in military mess halls next year because it costs too much to prepare. Instead, troops will get more hamburger or meatballs (which they prefer anyway). In another move prompted by price increases, President Nixon last week asked Congress to raise social security benefits by 10% and to provide for automatic increases in the future geared to the cost of living...
...only regret is that I cannot put Mr. Kennedy, with all his armchair strategy, in the middle of the A Shau Valley and watch him stew as the enemy artillery rounds are landing around his head. CHARLES W. NEWHALL III 1st Lieutenant, U.S.A. A.P.O. San Francisco...
...honor of membership, you pay only $2 to enter the Marathon and here is what you receive: bus ride to Hopkinton, numbers and pins, dressing facilities at Hopkinton Junior High School, 26 miles of open concrete, dressing facilities in the Prudential, and best of all, tasty beef stew in the Pru afterwards. And of course, while you're receiving all these benefits, you enjoy a healthy run as well...
There was one shower at the Pru, but I got to use it eventually. I went to get my food after dressing, but I just could not eat the stew. My stomach said no. I had about four glasses of milk, though. My mother would have been proud...
Cloney's recent threat that, due to increasing numbers, they might have to do away with beef stew at the finishing line will probably do little to discourage entrants...