Word: milk
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Meanwhile, union members, disappointed by nationalization, were becoming increasingly hard for their government to handle. Last week, a wildcat strike of railway workers against the nationalized railway system was spreading. Liverpool dockers were out, and London truckers were engaged in a slowdown. In London, even the men who wash milk bottles had struck...
...would rest, and it would think, and if it went to bed it would fall asleep and dream, and it wants neither to think nor to dream, but to divide its time upright, between the two breasts of its mother, one of which gives it alcohol and the other milk. It wants to remain standing up, to forget, forget itself, wear itself out, and to escape by fatigue . . . from that internal questioning that one dares not indulge in, and to which one continually subjects others...
...commemoration of the vent the picturesque little dairy town is staging a "Milk Day" celebration to be high lighted by the award of a Harvard honorary degree to its best cow. The degree is M. D., Dector of Milk...
Fashions in smell vary with geography, too. The authors point out that Chinese gourmets, rebuked for liking "rotten eggs," can point with horror to the "rotten milk" (cheese) that Westerners find so delicious. "The shade of offense from odors," the authors note, "is measured by time, place, occasion and inurement...
...kind of sadness, loneliness in a deathly quiet . . . It produced a heartache and a sense of exile." Every country child in the old days saw coyotes, heard them, hunted them, listened to stories about them, perhaps tried the improbable or near-impossible job of taming one. "Drink your milk," said mothers to their children, "or the old coyote will...