Word: beefing
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...trial Mistress Eaton confessed to her culinary sins during Harvard's first abortive academic year and admitted that she never served beef, that the bread was made of sour meal, and that sometimes the beer gave out for a week at a time...
...Jennie Jerome of New York City, American in his directness but otherwise British as bully beef, last week spoke in a crescendo of confidence. Winston Churchill's blood is half American but when it begins to boil, a chemistry of ancient loyalties makes it all British-exultant, proud, superior, unbeatable even in defeat. Members of Parliament, their war nerves crying for a tonic, cheered as the Prime Minister bucked them with sentence after bracing sentence...
...Placed shrewdly at a time in the Georgia farm calendar when it is too early to pick cotton or pull fodder, too late for plowing, the camp meeting gave Georgians a chance for chatting as well as churchgoing. Camp ers downed prodigious meals of fried chicken, country ham, barbecued beef, Brunswick stew, stuffed eggs, potato salad, corn on the cob, pie, watermelon, iced tea, lemonade, Coca-Cola. Even after such meals, old Dr. Bascom Anthony could stir his congregation...
...some of the meats and grains that formerly went to Europe, which the food-surfeited U. S. has so far refused to do. This week Argentine Delegate Dr. Leopoldo Melo was in Washington, where he hoped to wangle an agreement to get into the U. S. some Argentine frozen beef. With such an agreement in his pocket when he returns to Buenos Aires, he may find his country less unwilling to trail along with the U. S. in hemisphere policy...
...nervously tried to guess the winner in the Anglo-German struggle. With a foreign-trade policy based on reciprocity, Argentina has consistently attempted to buy from its best customer. In the past Argentina has found an excellent complement to its own economy in that of Great Britain, has sent beef, wheat and maize to the British Isles in return for manufactured goods...