Word: pork
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...fashionable Maumee River section of the city, buying a big white stucco house with "the biggest mortgage on the block." There, some 25 Di Salles of three generations 'and any number of guests converge on weekends. They devour mountains of Myrtle's antipasto, prosciutto, spaghetti, pork and chicken, and then, with a pot of caffe espresso at hand, swim for the rest of the afternoon in the warm gurgling current of Italo-American argument and gossip...
...gloom along the dingy staircase leading up over the grocery, and gloom in the drab corridor outside the apartment. But the Philadelphia reporter who climbed the stairs last week to pay a call on William Baird and his family found no gloom inside. Mrs. Baird had put some pork on for dinner. Her sons stood cheerful guard on the preparations as she called out, "Better watch that stuff or it'll burn up." One son, Robert, 20, could not walk, but he was as cheerful as the rest...
...Spanish army gives its soldiers comforts unavailable to many civilians: three solid meals a day, warm clothing, good leather boots, free medical care, even legal aid. Camps and barracks may grow their own vegetables. One motorized artillery regiment just outside Madrid has 400 pigs. Its commander boasts: "Cerdo [pork] is one of the secrets of the fine fighting spirit of my men. Give them cerdo twice a day and a gun, and nobody can stop them...
...cuts of meat turn into an anti-pig story? I find that the Little Piggie story changed and warped the facts in such a way that the snobbish and un-working-class attitudes our readers detected crept in and received the main emphasis rather than the high price of pork -once a staple in the diet of millions...
...until the proposals for dropping pork-barrel items began piling up in the pantry, and the budget-cutters began to replace broad-gauged words with some specific proposals, could the U.S. taxpayer settle back and listen to the pleasant sputter of frying...