Word: milk
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Reconstruction. Meanwhile, in Vichy, Petain and his Cabinet methodically set about the task of rebuilding ravaged France. There were shortages of almost everything needed to keep life going: milk and butter, meat, sugar, soap, raw materials in general. Some foods were plentiful, but were withheld from hungry citizens by the breakdown of communications. Virtually all gasoline was in German hands; so were the northern coal mines, undamaged by the Nazi advance. Coffee and other imports were scarce...
...squeezing their bellies so that the eggs spurt out into a pan. Males are stripped of their milt in the same way, and when the eggs and milt are brought together, fertilization takes place quickly. But experts say that stripping a fighting, kicking steelhead is "like trying to milk a galloping cow with a greased udder." When the fish struggle hardest, large batches of eggs and milt may be sprayed out helter-skelter and lost...
...York World's Fair nearly every day is dedicated to something or somebody. Noel Coward and Tallulah Bankhead have lately had their days; soon Rudy Vallee, Superman, Mrs. Hearst's Milk Fund will have theirs. One day last week it was Philippa Duke Schuyler Day. Dayspring was a bright-eyed, coffee-colored child, not quite nine, who for four years has been an egregious U. S. prodigy (TIME, June...
...beer and light wines in all German-Canadian clubs; from Vernon, B. C. came reports of the bombing of a Canadian Legion Hall; in East York one thoroughly aroused businessman, offering the Veterans' Home Guard his full cooperation, put at their disposal his entire fleet of 30 milk trucks...
...reforms him. In four days, with the help of coconut milk and Koko (her trained chimpanzee), Miss Lamour has Mr. Preston totally abstaining in a brightly flowered breechclout. In addition, Typhoon provides a submarine full of mutineers which dives with open hatches, a yacht load of visiting Polynesian pirates, a raging jungle fire that is quenched by a super-colossal tidal wave...