Word: beefed
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...readers of U.S. magazine ads, Great Britain is a land of rare roast beef and rich Stilton cheese, fox hunts and elegant cars, castles and thatched cottages. It is peopled by snobby, sophisticated men who wear tweeds, raincoats and aloof looks. They drink only tea, Scotch, sherry, or gin and tonic. Such is Madison Avenue's image of Great Britain, and to many an Englishman it is "offensive and often unimpressive." So charged the London Economist last week in a critique of U.S. efforts to sell Britain and its wares. "The image that emerges." said the Economist...
...British-made and we've been making it for a very long time." When the British Travel Association sets out to extol the virtues of British food, the Economist says, "native critics feel distinctly uneasy," for "where would the tourist find that exquisite rare roast beef?" Ads for clean, spacious British Railways carriages are so far from the grubby reality that they "are guaranteed to make any Englishman blush...
...Last October Johnson returned the Mexican President's hospitality with a huge fiesta at the ranch, featuring a Mexican band, platters of $2.50-per-lb. beef barbecue, hundreds of Mexican tricolors, 800 goggle-eyed guests, and a sign, prominently displayed on a tree: LYNDON JOHNSON SERÁ PRESIDENTE. Johnson and López Mateos made an entrance worthy of Auntie Mame in a helicopter, followed by Harry Truman and Mister Sam in another, smaller helicopter. It was, according to a Dallas reporter, "one of the most dramatic outdoor shows since they produced Aïda with live elephants...
...until early 1962, when he would have 200 missiles tied into the SAGE net in the industrial Northeast and North Central states. To make up the difference in defenses against manned bombers, he promised to plug gaps in the three-year-old Distant Early Warning net (DEW line), beef up the manned interceptor-the F-104 and F106 - by better radar and longer-range airborne, atom-armed Falcon missiles...
...DROP IN BEEF PRICES this summer is predicted by American National Cattleman's Association. Reason: U.S. population growth justifies 1,000,000-head cattle increase per year, but over last two years U.S. has built up backlog of 8,500,000 head, and price will break sharply when this stampede hits market...