Word: milked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last visit in October 1953, he planned to go to Hollywood and write an opera with Igor Stravinsky. But first he stopped in New York to make some money by repeating his enormously successful readings of his "play for voices," Under Milk Wood, at Manhattan's Y.M.H.A...
...swam through prose, with a flashing of fins and a show of unexpected twists that could have made him famous as a prose writer if he had never so much as rhymed hell and seashell. Some of the stories sing of the same Welsh town he saluted in Under Milk Wood; others are rambling, obscurely symbolic excursions into weirder regions. In Skin Trade it was Thomas' sardonic intention to tell how a youngster from the provinces lands in London, much as he himself did. Before the boy sets out for the big city, he daydreams about what it will...
Only Setback. For human subjects he chose Ohio's Chillicothe Federal Reformatory. Of 30 volunteers (between the ages of 21 and 30), 26 got a minute droplet of a single strain of polio virus in a teaspoon-ul of milk. The human guinea pigs proved even more susceptible than the chimpanzees to the desired kind of infection. They did not get sick in any apparent way Yet the virus multiplied in their digestive tracts, boosted their antibody levels and was excreted in the stools for one to twelve weeks. It was in this connection Dr. Sabin reported his only...
Even if all should turn out to be milk and honey on the international front, the largest conceivable cutback in military spending in the near future would be no more than 20%. That would be a cut of about $7 billion, only about half the size of the drop that the nation took in its stride in the past two years. The overall effect of such a cut on the economy would be mild, since military spending even now comes to no more than 10% of the gross national product...
...five big companies control about 90% of the Congo's capital investment. They treat their Bantu workers with the same assiduous paternalism shown by the Congo state. For its 63,000 black dependents, the Union Minière furnishes attractive brick bungalows and good schools, prenatal care and milk for mothers and children, medals for the men who excel at their work in the mines. "This is capitalism as it works in the Congo," said one industrialist proudly...