Word: milke
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...mention one's physician -- Americans are shunning artery-clogging desserts and nibbling lighter foods. But on Executive Boulevard, that perception is a few degrees and a few thousand calories low of the mark. Here the recipe for success is decidedly heavyweight: 140 lbs. of chocolate, 100 lbs. of milk, a bottle of kirsch, eight cooks and one world-famous pastry chef. Stir for a week and voila: doctorates in desserts from the International Pastry Arts Center...
WASHINGTON--Both houses of Congress overwhelmingly approved some $6 billion in aid for drought-stricken farmers yesterday after scaling back provisions for special assistance to milk producers and ethanol fuel makers...
...House had come under fire over a provision that would have increased on October 1 the price-support level for milk to $11.10 for each 100 pounds. It would raise consumer costs by a few cents a gallon at most and cost the government $145 million by congressional estimate. The Agriculture Department put the price tag at $300 million...
Stationed next to a large white milk bottle that doubles as a refreshment stand, Summer Splash's new yellow and blue awning houses a series of waterfalls that are designed to show children how gravity and other natural forces affect the movement of rivers, lakes and even wells in Africa...
...rail, along a line that Czarist Russia helped build in the late 19th century from Harbin, the capital of Heilongjiang, to the Pacific port city of Vladivostok, more than 300 miles to the southeast. The principal border-crossing point for the region is Suifenhe, five hours by the daily milk train from Mudanjiang, near the Ussuri River, scene of some of the fiercest fighting in 1969. Here too there are plenty of reminders of potential trouble. Green military staff cars dart about the streets, their horns blowing at pedestrians and the occasional horse-drawn cart to make room for P.L.A...