Word: beefing
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...LaGuardia: "Mr. Willkie's utterances ... as far as I have quoted . . . [contain] a total of six different positions on foreign policy, nine contradictions . . . regarding the New Deal's policies and legislation, three contradictions on ... power, and one contradiction each regarding the control of monopolies, Government ownership, Argentine beef, and the Third Term...
...After MacDonald and Baldwin came Chamberlain, who "liked to be called 'British like beef,' " but was really "an eccentric figure behind a disguise of excessive normality." The appeasers were in. "All they wanted was to lay their heads on the block and be left in peace, peace!" Von Ribbentrop came visiting and proselyting. "A wave of political perversion broke over polite society...
...this morning slept over both prayers and breakfast," he records on one morning. "One advantage attended the omission of the latter, namely an appetite at dinner sufficient to relish Commons beef...
...audience cheered the blasts which were made against Willkie's inconsistencies and misstatements. In particular he dwelt on the Republican candidate's remarks before a cattle raising audience that he would prohibit importation's of Argentine canned beef for the navy...
...civilian army was busy this week with plans for building tiers of bunks in the subway stations. Minister of Food Lord Woolton had already provided 20 centres for distributing hot meals of beef stew, rice pudding and tea at eightpence each. London housewives whose stoves might not be functioning at home could go to municipal kitchens to cook meals. Women of the National Conference of Labor urged the Government to fix food prices, claiming that British living costs have risen 32% since break of war. Wages have also risen. With Britain now spending on her war effort more than five...