Word: milk
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Long Wait. As best they could they kept together, some tied to a long rope like corks on a net. A demented sailor yelled that his mother had just handed him a glass of cold milk. Another pointed to an imaginary island; Seabees, he screamed, were drinking tomato juice, less than two miles away. This caused a weird mass hallucination, and nearly 100 men began swimming for the island...
...afraid the Sergeant has been influenced by these Nazi pushovers, and they are just that. If Bundenthal likes this "natural, Godgiven beauty," I'll take Elsie the Cow. She couldn't be dumber, she's got more personality, and she gives milk too. And all the boys here in the RAT Bn. agree...
Lampooner & Landscaper. Shelby's painter was Terence Duren, frail, 40, ferocious lampooner of womanhood, an ex-Chicago Art Institute instructor, ex-Greenwich Village freelancer. For the occasion, he dolled up his studio, a former mortuary off Shelby's Main Street, with bouquets of gladioli in milk pails. He also painted his potbellied stove azure and white...
When the file slipped, flew up and pierced his eyeball, John Muir walked to the window while the milk-white aqueous fluid dripped out into his cupped hand...
...foreigners on the Witwatersrand outnumbered Boers 85,000 to 65,000. They also owned half the land and nine-tenths of the assessable property. The more their power increased, the more President Kruger sought to milk them with taxes and curb them with limited franchise; the more he succeeded, the more vengeful they became. As one old Boer summed it up: ''There are two riders but only one horse. . . . The question is which rider is going to sit in front...