Word: milk
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...record time, pledges for $23,000.000 in drugs and Pharmaceuticals, $14,000,000 in baby foods, $9,000,000 in powdered milk and $7,000,000 in surgical, dental and veterinary instruments were offered...
Last week, the little land of mountains, milk and money took what many Swiss consider to be a historic plunge. After more than a decade of suspicious observation, it joined the 16-nation Council of Europe, an organization of representatives of European parliaments that debates such matters as social security and human rights, and talks vaguely about ways "to achieve a greater unity" in Europe...
...first seen in The Thirty-Nine Steps, speaks Afrikaans and German, turns out to be a dead shot with a captured Mauser, describes himself as "tough as a sjambok." (Most Buchan readers know what a sjambok is.) Hannay's American crony, John S. Blenkiron, drinks nothing but boiled milk (to placate his seething "duodenum"), bursts out with John Brown's Body when things look darkest, but is matchless at diagnosing the nefarious geopolitical logic behind any dirty work at the crossroads of the world. Grizzled...
While they were still in the relative East, they ate three-star meals, with hot biscuits, fresh butter, honey, milk, cream, venison, wild peas, tea and coffee all included in a single typical dinner. Toward the other end, they ate rancid bacon, mountain sheep, red fox, and sometimes boiled hides. When they were dying of thirst, they drank mule urine. While 47 of the 87 members of the Donner Party were dying of hunger in 1846, there was some cannibalism. "What do you think I cooked this morning?" said Aunt Betsy Donner one day. "Shoemaker...
...Genghis Khan. Outer Mongolia has more yurts (circular, felt-covered tents) than houses, and more cattle (21 million) than people (1,000,000). Mongols are born to the saddle, lasso their horses with nooses at the end of long poles, make a strong wine from fermented cow's milk and feast on such dainties as yak butter delicately flavored with yak urine, and sheep intestines stuffed with dried blood. Every traveler on the steppes is welcomed as an honored guest entitled to the best food and accommodations in the yurt...