Word: milk
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...London Daily Express said that by his expulsion the Party was "blowing its brains out." In Russia, Sir Stafford will have done the Empire yeoman service if he can get what he hopes to get: 1) a trade agreement; 2) a military alliance-both with something more than milk teeth...
Also included of the rolls, according to the reports which they gave on the questionnaire, are a Communist organizer, a writer of "drugstore classics," a laborer, a policeman, a scalp treatment specialist, a milk-bottle-packager, a sand and gravel expert, a wood preserver, a dog caterer, an ex-Foreign Legionnaire, and 17 unemployed, one of whom described himself as "looking for work; hoping for relief...
...with waterproof clothes, lightens his pack with aluminum utensils and condensed food rations. Napoleon's legionnaires, weighed down by bread and flour, carried packs that weighed 58 lb. The modern U. S. foot-slogger's pack weighs 31 lb. His emergency ration consists of nucleo-casein, malted milk, egg albumen, powdered cane sugar, cocoa butter-proteins, amino-bodies, fat and carbohydrates...
Herr Hitler also still got some 390,000 tons of Dutch oil, 3.000 tons of tin, large stocks of vegetable oils, whale oil, condensed milk. He appointed his Austrian yes man, Arthur Seyss Inquart, to govern the new prize. He gloated over the new springboard he had for a feat never accomplished, even by Napoleon, since William the Conqueror performed it in 1066: the invasion of Great Britain...
Food, especially pudding, inspires British schoolboys to a "peculiarly revolting form of humor" (e.g., maggots-in-milk-rice pudding; cats' eyes-in-phlegm-sago pudding). For their headmasters they have many names: the Boss, the Chief, the Dox, the Twig, the Pot (also Jerry). A chambermaid is a skivvy, a woman, a hag. Tea, coffee or cocoa is hogwash or pigswill. A boy who studies hard, swots, is treated with the contempt which he deserves. Many and lurid are the names for a new boy: new brat, new squit, new scum, fresh herring. Richest and nastiest is the group...