Word: milked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...MILK PRODUCTION is soaring despite the cut in price supports April 1, and the Government faces increased purchases and a far greater surplus this year than last. First-quarter production totaled 28.9 billion Ibs. of milk, 1.2 billion over 1953 levels and some 3 billion Ibs. more than the ten-year average...
Dylan Thomas was never satisfied with Under Milk Wood. The original theme first came to him when he was commissioned to write a short radio script for the B.B.C. He reworked this play, adding and swerving more and more from his intended plot, for ten years up until his death last November. Because of the scope of his drama, Thomas would probably never have been through polishing and revising. In Under Milk Wood, he is telling of all mankind, and it is his favorite story...
...phrase, not in formal rhythm; and he has dotted the script with Anglo-Welsh words, melodic to the ear but distracting visually. Also the same use of alliteration which often makes the play smoothly sing out, is occasionally handled less skillfully: "Now in the light she'll work, sing, milk, say the cows' sweet names and sleep until the night sucks out her soul and spits it into the sky. In her life-long love light, holily Bessie milks the fond lake-eyed cows as dusk showers slowly down over byre, sea, and town...
...scraping to buy a new coat. We tell lies and gossip, our faces are drawn with longing for possessions and qualities which we do not have: power, personality, happiness, electric light, golf championships, more brandy, exciting friends, fame, white skins, a second chance, youth, a penny off the milk or a penny on the milk...
Sales Talk. In Sacramento, boasting that he was due to inherit $5,000,000, House-to-House Salesman Lee Capell promised prospective customers a year's free milk and free home sites, confessed, after sheriff's deputies caught up with him for driving a car without a license: "You get to lying, get carried away and start believing...