Word: milked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...platypus family life. Platypus reproduction is a baffling business, for platypuses are not quite mammals. Their blood is warm and they have mammal-like fur, but they lay soft, reptile-type eggs about ¾ in. long. From the eggs hatch blind, hairless little "larvae" that nurse by licking milk from their mother's mammary pores. Only after several months do they frisk out of their burrow as furry platykittens...
...came long and anxious waiting while the presumed young platypuses passed through the nursing stage. Penelope kept her own council, but she seemed to be eating for two or more. Huge quantities of worms and larvae disappeared into her duck bill. Her offspring were presumably demanding more and more milk. According to the schedule worked out in Australia, they should come into the outside world after 17 weeks...
Died. Dylan Marlais Thomas, 39, Wales's bright young mystic of English poetry (Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog, Under Milk Wood), whose vivid, tempestuous verse won him both critics' acclaim and thousands of readers; of undisclosed causes, while on a lecture tour of the U.S.; in Manhattan...
...Patterson, now 56, is not through expanding, is still brimming with new ideas for new machines. The most startling: an automatic bread mixer which will take in flour, milk, etc. at one end, send loaves for baking out the other...
...Milk an' Honey. Author'Lamming was a bright boy at school, went on to high school and a teaching job. Others of his generation went to the U.S., the new land of "milk an' honey flowin' as it use to flow in the ancient time." Young George saw native agitators engineer strikes against the British landowners, saw native villagers dispossessed of patches of land that had been home all their lives, then saw the agitators sell out the native black folk who had been bemused by revolutionary talk that was over their heads...