Word: milk
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dissolute ways. Only recently, he decided to give up drinking altogether-not only because of the furor but also to please his stern-principled parents. It was just as well, for he only recently brought a peptic ulcer under control. To keep it so, he quaffs quarts of milk and Coca-Cola, consumes cups of bouillon at midmorning and midafternoon, takes a couple of Pro-Banthine pills daily...
After lunch-sometimes a leisurely affair with the President, sometimes a fast hamburger and a glass of milk in the White House basement mess-he is back at his desk. At 3:30, he begins to prepare for his 4 p.m. briefing, often faultlessly typing his own notes at 100 words a minute. Though he frequently works until 10 or 11, he tries to get away around 7:30. Says Judith: "When Bill isn't working, he is almost embarrassed about...
...Milk in Kuwait. The language barrier, thanks to expert dubbing, is the most readily surmounted. Japan uses classic Kabuki actors to speak for Bonanza's Cartwrights, although their services often cost as much as the purchase price of the tape. Subtitles come much cheaper, but audiences in the richer nations like Germany won't abide them, viewers in the poorer ones can't read them. Not that a lot does not get lost in the translations. In the original version of a Zane Grey Theater episode, the villain burst into a saloon, hammered his fist...
Other times the mistranslations are on purpose. In Moslem Kuwait, government censors changed the villain's order to: "Give me a glass of milk." Kissing scenes are also deleted outright in Kuwait, limited to a wham-bam five seconds in Lebanon. At the same time, a Danish programmer complains that "American shows are too Victorian in their morals...
What bothered people was making the payment automatic. Opponents said this would amount to taxation of the U.S. government. They said the District government would be able to milk the U.S. taxpayers. They suggested it might be unconstitutional for Congress to abandon its control of government expenditures...