Word: milked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...unexcitable. City-room staffers clock him in every day: hanging up his hat & coat at 5:20 p.m., putting them on again at exactly 12:05 a.m. Some times during the evening he looks up, summons one cf the city-room waiters and orders a sandwich and glass of milk from the cafeteria. Reporters like the way Garst seeks their judgment on a story's value (Garst: "How much space do you want to give it?"), respect the quick but never superficial reading he gives their copy, admire his calm in a news crisis. Said Star Reporter Meyer Berger...
...this week, is a tall (6 ft.), spare (130 lbs.) Bostonian whose modest prayer is that his mind will always be larger than his frame. Fred's father, a Back Bay minister, sent him to Groton (it tasted awful but was good for him, he feels-like milk of magnesia). At Harvard he was on the Lampoon with Cartoonist Gluyas Williams and the late Robert Benchley. Allen landed his first editorial job under Ellery Sedgwick on the Atlantic Monthly, was managing editor of the old Century at only 26. He joined Harper's in 1923, and became...
Dewey had a chicken sandwich and a glass of milk and sat down again before the television set. Across the land, listening at radios, people sat with their score cards, waiting to play the game of Presidential Bingo...
Some time after 2 a.m. the conferees sent out for seven pints of milk. Pachydermatous Roy Roberts lumbered out, denied indignantly that Room 808 was a "smoke-filled room." Said he: "The only thing in there was this cigar and it wasn't lit." Shortly after 4, the meeting broke up. Dewey called the man who had been his personal choice all along-California's Governor Earl Warren...
...food trains from the Western zones on which Berlin depends for survival; cut the Western sectors' electricity in half (by halting their own contribution to it); blocked all coal shipments for Berlin industries; forbade the city government to distribute any food outside the Soviet sector; cut off all milk supplies from the Soviet zone. They even cut medicine supplies, but yielded under an American threat to withhold penicillin...