Word: milk
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ingrid Bergman, who has credited her ruddy good health to a liking for "Baltic herrings and sour milk," got the kind of Christmas present that was obviously just what she wanted: a whole barrel of Baltic herrings, a gift from the Swedish fishery union...
Over the whole program hangs the shadow of military security. Can Pitzer protect his men from the threat of attack (without hearing or recourse) on charges of disloyalty?* Unless he can reassure his colleagues on such points, AEC may have to get along with the skim milk of U.S. scientific talent...
...students had arrived by stagecoach, farm wagon and shanks' mare. Board, reported the chancellor, "need not exceed 80? per week." They ate mostly bread and milk, an occasional fish from Lake Mendota, and, as a "rare treat," roast potatoes. A room in North Hall, the dormitory "on the hill," cost $5 a term; furniture "new from the store," another $8. Students had to draw and fetch their own water from the university well, chop down campus trees for firewood, and raid nearby farms for straw for their mattresses. Daily chapel was compulsory; so were six hours of daily attendance...
...TIME, Sept. 13). Its Life & Times was simply a reprint of funny-paper strips, plus a weekend's work by Capp on extra drawings to make Dogpatch only reasonably unintelligible to readers venturing there for the first time. Asking nothing of the world, the shmoo gave everything: butter, milk, eggs, boneless meat, building materials (of sliced shmoo), suspender buttons (of shmoo eyes). Wherever shmoos went-and they multiplied like speeded-up guinea pigs-no one had to work any more. Capitalists thought this a menace, so Pork Tycoon J. Roaringham Fatback sent "shmooicide squads" to wipe out the shmoo...
...Manhattan, the Royal Roost, hoping to heighten bebop's moral and intellectual tone, opened a milk bar for teen-agers in the yellow leather corral. A learned study of bebop by Jazz Columnist Leonard Feather was under way, and a letter had been dispatched to Bernard Shaw to get his opinion on the whole thing...