Word: milked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...business the young father, who was helping out as anesthetist, fainted dead away. Dr. Luce left him on the floor and carried on alone. A year later he was going sleepless to make 40 calls a day by foot and by buggy in an effort to halt a milk-borne epidemic that felled almost a fifth of his town...
...ways: surgery, exercise, and rest. However, Dr. Frederick F. Stare, professor of Nutrition and director of the new research program, hopes to be able to control the disease by diet. The harmful molecule appears mainly in the blood of people who eat large amounts of eggs, meat, and milk. Hardening of the arteries is practically unknown in the rice centers of Asia. He is attempting to see whether, by changing the diet, he can stop the thickening of the blood, and if he can create the molecule in the blood of animals by feeding them large quantities of fats...
...Warm Milk. Room One contained four paintings for which the Met had awarded $8,500 in prizes. The awards were all safe as warm milk; granted to men who had won many prizes before, they ran the gamut from watered-down abstractionism to souped-up realism. Basket Bouquet, an impeccable and wholly uninspiring arrangement of lilac smudges by Cape Cod Abstractionist Karl Knaths, took first prize. It looked rather like a flat but tasteful Victorian sampler, translated into the smeary medium of oils. California's Rico Lebrun came in second with Centurion's Horse, a chalky, Picassoid...
...secret societies which blanch at the thought of having over-zealous student politicians trying to control what goes on in their tomb-like structures. Fraternity men similarly fight any proposal for a council in fear that a council might eventually dictate the percentage of alcohol in the Sunday morning milk punch...
...broken "on the wheel of a dream"; the night wind passes "like a sail across/ A blind man's eye"; an old house "looks as though the walls had cried themselves/ To sleep"; a happy character "sits and purrs/ As though the morning were a saucer of milk"; the fields of grain move "like a lion's mane"; flowers gather "like pilgrims in the aisles of the sun"; the morning leaves "the sunlight on my step like any normal/ Tradesman." Fry's most persistent and most moving theme is the perpetual dialogue between despair and hope...