Word: milk
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...devote to impersonal toil a scintilla of the love and labor he lavishes on the minute patch of land he can still call his own. From privately owned plots, amounting to a bare 3% of all cultivated land in Russia, comes half of all the nation's meat, milk, green vegetables. But the bureaucracy adamantly refuses to expand the private plots...
...histories of experiments that failed: a dropsical woman who apparently vomited and died after receiving four doses of "decoction of foxglove"; his own infant daughter who died after Erasmus tried to inoculate her against measles. He was most successful, in fact, when he put his patients on diets of milk, vegetables and fruit and left them alone. His real love was inventing. On paper he devised a water closet, a diving bell, a canal lock, a horizontal windmill for grinding pigments, a hydrogen-oxygen motor, and a speaking machine "capable of pronouncing the Lord's Prayer, the Creed...
...Winthrop's Guest Suite, however, the day's events couldn't have seemed more remote. Visiting E.H. Carr, the noted British historian who is spending six weeks at Harvard, was like stepping onto a very white, very soft cloud and drifting off into a sky of milk. As he lay back on his sofa and slowly fingered his white hair, Carr talked about the past, present, future and himself with a simple, contented smile and an almost unbelievable optimism...
...people pride themselves on their Hamitic heritage, their nomad hardiness. No Somali youth feels secure without an iron bracelet-won only by killing two men in combat. Argumentative and fiercely antiauthoritarian, the Somalis are often called the "Irish of Africa," although as Moslems they prefer cold camel's milk to a headier gargle. Well-meaning foreigners who stroll into their quaint, collapsible villages (stick-and skin aghals that can be packed onto camelback in a matter of minutes) often find themselves on the receiving end of accurately thrown stones as the Somalis scream, "Out with the infidel!" Even Mogadishu...
Panama's richest men; he donates his $22,000-a-year presidential salary to the Panamanian Red Cross. His major source of wealth is the family's dairy farm and sugar plantations. Chiari's Blue Star dairy supplies most of Panama's milk, and the sugar plantations give him. a near monopoly on that commodity. (Price of sugar in Panama: 110 per lb., v. 60 in the Canal Zone.) Chiari's father was one of the leaders in Panama's fight for independence from Colombia, soon after built up a fortune in cattle...