Word: milk
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Other recent additions to the language, from the Washington scene: The "Milk Route" is the daily round of visits a businessman makes trying to get a defense order, to 0PM, SPAB, OPA, ODT, War, Navy, Treasury and Agriculture Departments. A "Torch Bearer" is a sympathetic Government subordinate who actually takes up a case and follows it through...
...presented to the U.S. by Mme. Chiang Kai-shek in gratitude for the activities of United China Relief. In a new, barless $15,000 home at New York City's Bronx Zoo, the new pandas will be weaned from bamboo shoots to a diet of Pablum, orange juice, milk, honey, raw eggs...
...Boston, when the carolers came on Christmas Eve, the great houses on Beacon Hill would-barring unexpected blackout-be alight from top to bottom, with a candle in every window. There would be shiny holly wreaths tied with red ribbon on the doors, milk-white mistletoe berries over the living-room entrance, clusters of bayberry and bittersweet over the stockings on the mantel. Small children in fuzzy pajamas would be led unwillingly to bed, while teen-age brothers & sisters paraded stiffly in first Tuxedos and long dresses, ready to sweep off to Christmas Eve dances...
...fall back on the equanimity of the Chinese, but the differences in nutrition of Chinese and Westerners may give a better explanation." Arteriosclerosis begins by the seeping of fat into bloodvessel walls. The Chinese do not eat butter, fat, or other dairy products rich in fat, such as milk and cheese. In fact, said Dr. Snapper, the fatty acids present in their cooking oils may help to prevent arteriosclerosis...
...because of the excellent red wine of the vineyards that made him rich. Rich President Aguirre's Popular Front Government reduced the price of bread from 2.20 pesos (11?) to 1.70 (9?) and the price of some meats by 40%, made available to workers who had never tasted milk 12,000 litres a day at 80 centavos a litre, returned from Government-owned pawnshops some 9,000,000 pesos worth of hocked tools and clothing. "Don Tinto," says the poor man of Chile, "es un muy buen hombre" (TIME...