Word: milk
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...chauffeur drove Admiral Darlan down past Paris and Orleans, past Nevers and the country of the milk-white cows, across the demarcation line at Moulins and up the stony Allier to Vichy. A few days later he learned that he would have to drive the Admiral to Paris and its secret environs probably many more times. The Admiral had been named official negotiator with the Germans. But strangely ten days, twelve days, a fortnight passed; and the Admiral was not called to the occupied zone. The Germans were slow about their answer...
...tweeds, can free speech mean much to the millions of Americans who only look in at the windows of Thanksgiving dinners and hear with wistful ears the solid sound of think leather sole on the cold pavement. Nine million farmers can assemble all right . . . to see white milk run gray in the dust of the road, to smell full grains burning sharp and sad in clear fall air while the government budget swings to its unbalanced balance...
...party was informal but not rowdy. The young guests sat on the floor between dances in the East Room, sipped pink lemonade, ice water and a mild sauterne punch that would not have harmed a milk-barfly. The President, after sitting in the receiving line with Miss Morgenthau, went upstairs early. But Mrs. Roosevelt remained, tirelessly danced every one of the waltzes played by Sidney's Orchestra...
Problems of health mounted with the hours spent in the rank, fetid air underground. Few shelters had adequate heat, light or latrines; most were dank and unventilated at best. Children slept with their parents under blankets left underground for weeks on end. Milk for babies could not be heated if it was brought in. Nightly inspection trips were made by doctors and Red Cross nurses, but medical attention was still makeshift. One shelter doctor, who worked at a children's hospital by day, was responsible for 5,000 men, women and children at night...
Every Japanese has been limited to one cotton towel a year. Foreign news films have disappeared from the theatres. There is strict rationing of gauze, absorbent cotton, condensed and powdered milk. Picture post cards or magazine pictures of Imperial and military buildings, factories, other landmarks, have been prohibited. Geisha girls cannot have permanent waves, fancy coiffeurs, heavy makeup, manicures, high heels or too bright kimonos. Tokyo Imperial University students must walk to school if they live within two kilometres, can go to the theatre only on weekends or holidays, can't go at all to mah-jongg parlors, billiard...