Word: milke
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Craftsman tools, of course. Ads comparing brand-name products, extolling the merits of one over the other, could be dealt with in laborious detail. Says Michael Dann, senior program adviser to ABC's Video Enterprises: "The advertiser who wants to spell out the differences between Phillips' Milk Of Magnesia and Pepto-Bismol is going to get a hell of a lot more time...
...confession. The "Papyrus of Nu" from the 18th dynasty of Egypt records what scholars have come to call the negative confessions. Therein the Egyptian advises the gods of all the crimes he has not committed during his life ("I have not polluted myself... I have not carried away milk from the mouths of children" and so on) and concludes in an ecstasy of self-exoneration: "I am pure. I am pure." During the 1952 campaign, when he was running for Vice President, Nixon was accused of having an improper $18,000 slush fund set up for him by California businessmen...
...require stringent belt-tightening measures, something Poland's long-suffering population may be reluctant to accept. The government last week added cereals and flour to its list of strictly rationed commodities, which already include meat and sugar. Meanwhile, the queues of hapless shoppers grow ever longer as bread, milk and cooking oil get scarcer. Only Polish humor, it sometimes seemed, was still in abundance. A cartoon in Solidarity's weekly newspaper showed two Poles discussing politics. "I hear Solidarity is pouring oil on the waters," says one. The other answers: "Hmmm, I wonder where they...
Although participants noted a large decrease in student activism on global issues from the early '70s, they described a rise in concern with local issues. "House committee used to run on bribes of milk and cookies." Michael R. Moynihan, a Currier tutor from 1974 to 1980, said, adding. "Now it uns as a town meeting...
Cheesemakers are always trying to find something profitable to make from whey, the liquid part of milk left behind in producing cheeses. For every pound of cheese there are 9 lbs. of whey, or nearly 40 billion lbs. in America each year. Half has industrial uses, but half goes to waste. Environmental laws forbid dumping it in rivers. So some major cheesemakers maintain vast, costly, smelly lagoons of decomposing whey...