Word: milk
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Saps." Farm-bloc Congressmen fought for U.S. cows as though the margarine-makers were going to throw them all into giant hamburger machines; they predicted balefully that herds would be so depleted that little babies would be denied milk. They cried that oleo was full of worms and that its natural color was tattletale grey. Oleo's partisans replied that butter had been found to contain "insects, hair, moth scales and something with a Latin name...
...escorted Lord Mountbatten, India's Governor General, and Lady Mountbatten into the inner temple of Sri Ranganadha (Vishnu) near Seringapatam. When they left, Priest Archaka closed the inner precincts and began cleaning up after the Mountbattens. He washed down the black stone idol with water and then with milk, chanted prayers in the oldtime purification ceremony. Irritated, the Mysore government ordered the conservative Archaka to suspend the ceremony and reopen the temple. The Governor General was thus implicitly raised at least to the new level of the Untouchables...
Public Record. As county attorney he closed up his share of gambling houses, took a hand in labor disputes. He broke up a Communist group in a meatpackers' union. During the milk strikes of the early 1930s, he walked into a meeting of angry farmers, warned that he would prosecute any violence, but offered to represent them without a fee. He got milk prices raised 30? a hundredweight...
...Party line in France last week swerved back to a point on which Maurice Thorez stood a year ago. In the spring of 1947, Thorez offered friendship to other "democrats" who wanted to rebuild France and Europe. Last autumn the Cominform in Belgrade knocked the props from under that milk-toasty policy. Many Frenchmen thought that Thorez, leader of the French Communists' "take-it-easy" faction, was washed up as the head of his party...
...should rely on itself and the Empire; not on the U.S. and Europe. ("This proud old land," said an Express leader column, "appears in the role of a village drunkard, swaggering in a pub, insisting on standing his round-but never able to pay for the children's milk next morning...