Word: beefsteak
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tragedy, 1947. In Manchester, England, Sarah Kimpton just couldn't wait to cook a precious beefsteak, took a big bite out of it raw, fell down-dead...
Pierre Monteux, French-born conductor of the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, was seeing through a beefsteak, darkly. While watching his first baseball game in Hancock, Me. he was bopped in the eye by a foul ball. But along with the shiner he acquired wisdom: "Now I understand why baseball is so popular. Even when you only watch it, you are part of the game...
...Beefsteak. Three weeks ago the deadlock on the Italian treaty seemed about to be broken by settling one point-the question of powers to be conferred on the U.N.-appointed governor of Trieste (TIME, Nov. 25). But that point proved a knotty...
Last week Byrnes had an hour alone with Molotov-and presumably with Molotov's indispensable man, Translator Vladimir ("Pinky") Pavlov. Next day the Big Four had a cozy lunch with a mere handful of aides present. The only news that came out was that the conferees ate beefsteak...
France's towering (6 ft. 7 in.) Yvon Petra stomped onto Wimbledon's famed center court wearing a white jockey cap and a belligerent look. His wife had just found him a steak. Said she: "With a beefsteak inside him, he can always win." She was right...