Word: beefed
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...fight for Uruguayan wool in Boston and Uruguayan beef in Chicago," announced President Luis Batlle Berres in Montevideo last week. "I'm going to converse, discuss and fight in a friendly way to defend Uruguayan interests." Thereupon, Batlle Berres and his wife took off for a twelve-day state visit to the U.S., at the special invitation of President Eisenhower. The itinerary was loaded with wreath-layings, state dinners, speeches and sightseeing. But President Batlle (pronounced Bat-zhay) Berres took his finance minister with him, and some serious talk on economic matters-perhaps even U.S. loans-was clearly expectable...
...market. A wheat surplus, spurred by government subsidies, is snowballing. To complicate matters, the subsidies have encouraged cattlemen to reduce herds and convert pasture land to wheat. As a result, many of the country's packing and canning plants are idle, and Uruguay has been trying to import beef cattle from Argentina to keep them going. Batlle Berres is sure to have a few words to say about wheat, especially since the U.S., carrying a big surplus itself, is beginning to cut into Uruguay's markets by selling to dollar-short customers such as Brazil, for local currencies...
...Challenger Tony DeMarco stayed on his feet for 15 rounds-so the speculation went-home-town officials would give him the title. All afternoon before the bout, odds on the champ dropped accordingly. By fight time, the price was 6 to 5. Basilio's handlers filed an angry beef with the Massachusetts Boxing Commission. "What gives?" wailed Co-Manager Johnny de John. "My boy is getting a bum deal...
...shows signs of becoming extinct. Hundreds were slaughtered in the 18705 after an Australian firm offered $9 a gallon for dugong oil; many more were killed and eaten in World War II, when-Japanese garrisons in the South Pacific convinced themselves that dugong meat tastes like prime ribs of beef. California's Eugenie was speared and taken off Babelthuap Island. Only three dugongs have been caught in the Palau group since...
...their respective languages were concurrently universal. Latin remained the dominant language in the West until the Renaissance, when the rise of nationalism ended its universality. It then became an academic, but not spoken, tongue. As Gode illustrates, "When Newton interrupted the composition of his Latin Principia, it was roast beef and not caro bubula tosta' for which he asked...