Word: tartaric
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Many doctors recommend eating horseflesh," said Radio Warsaw, "since it has great curative powers. It helps relieve pains of older people. The meat, though sweet, tastes not unlike beef." Other broadcasts warned of the dangers of cholesterol in beef. Warsaw's Trybuna Ludu sang the praises of the Tartar, an all-horse-meat restaurant that was opened with much fanfare in Rzeszow. "People are going in droves to the Tartar," claimed Trybuna Ludu. "Its varied menu shows what can be done with horse meat...
Disputatious Moslem. Violence came infrequently to Visegrad but, when it did, men died resignedly. Early in the book, Author Andrić offers the most grisly description of an impaling since the Tartar Prince Azya was mounted on a stake and had his one eye gouged out in Henryk (Quo Vadis) Sienkiewicz's Pan Michael. Later, when the Serbs revolt against the crumbling Ottoman Empire, severed heads are as common on the bridge as melons used to be, but the townsfolk-always approving of good workmanship-remark that the Turkish executioner has "a lighter hand than Mushan the town barber...
...serious underemployment by building up vast cottage industries. Communes are now in the midst of a mass drive to produce pig iron and steel in tiny handmade blast furnaces of a kind developed by Chinese artisans in the Middle Ages. In China's desolate northern marches Mongol and Tartar women sweat over more than 5,000 furnaces which they have built in the last few weeks, and in Honan 440,000 furnaces (operated by peasants who have already put in a ten-hour day in the fields) allegedly turned out 300,000 tons of steel in October alone...
Last week Raytheon won a $6,000,000 contract for the electronic controls of the Navy's new surface-to-air Tartar missile, announced a $6,000,000 contract for development of a radically new sonar system for atomic submarines. To manufacture top-secret communications equipment for the Air Force, the firm is shopping around for a huge new factory that will add one-sixth more capacity to its plants, which are scattered from Massachusetts to California...
Across the country, fees are remarkably uniform. Most vets charge $3 to $5 for an office visit, add $2 or so for ordinary medicines, $3 to $6 for injections (more and better vaccines are coming out), $5 for tooth-cleaning ($7.50 with tartar scraping), $50 for cosmetic surgery to make a dog's ears stand up. Spaying runs from $20 (for a cat) to $35 for a bitch, more if the patient is over a year old. Most vets can be induced to make house calls (though they discourage them for the same reasons as M.D.s), charge...