Word: milk
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...flat seat-cushion, hard like a mattress, sailed down from the crowd and landed somewhere near Lorenzo Garza. "Obscenity," muttered Lorenzo Garza. "I obscenity in the milk of their mattress." He was sweating and cursing and the bull was standing there and the crowd was yelling and the cushions and bottles were falling all about him because the unprintable bull did not want to be killed...
Skimpy harvests for next year had been assured by more strangulating, if less direct, German inroads. Farms had been wrecked after their owners fled before the advancing Germans last summer. Cattle were scattered or killed and eaten by the troops, milk-swollen cows ruined by neglect. Disrupted electric systems had stopped refrigeration, allowing precious foodstuffs to spoil in the hot summer months. Grain needed for spring sowing is expensive and hard to find...
...Smith, Dr. Turner devised an experiment, reported its results last week in The American Journal of Digestive Diseases. They gave orange juice to 15 subjects, took stomach samples after feeding. At other times they gave the same subjects equivalent amounts of 1) soft toast and tea; 2) rich milk. In all but two patients, the stomach acid averaged 75% higher after the orange juice than after the other diets. It looked as though ulcer patients should get their vitamin C from something else than orange juice. But the doctors were too cautious to say so definitely; they wanted still more...
...Singh had to break them of their deeply ingrained wolf ways. They had to be tied into bed, tore off clothing as savagely as wolf cubs, dreaded daylight, at night howled eerily as they had with the jungle pack, at ten, one and three o'clock. They lapped milk from a dish in imitation of the orphanage dogs, whose company they preferred to other children's. They craved raw meat, and Kamala was once caught devouring chicken entrails which her sensitive wolf-nose had located in a garbage pail. For months they could not walk upright; their muscles...
...ambled into Los Angeles court, tried to get a $20,000 refund on his 1937 Federal income tax. He found that the Government wanted $20,000 more. Badgered by revenuers about the elastic rubric he had created for deductible expenses, he had a time explaining a $20 item for milk. Puffed globular Taxpayer Fields: "I do not drink the liquid myself. I believe the writers. . . used it as a kind of a lubricant. . . . All I know about milk is that it's what Anna Held took a bath in. Ah, Anna Held. . . . There was a chickadee for you, gentlemen...