Word: milked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...police and Guards men on homicide charges. Among other tales of brutal reprisals, investigators learned, were those of a factory worker who was reportedly kicked and beaten to death after taking two bullets as a suspected sniper; a 19-year-old Job Corps trainee who was yanked off his milk truck, told to run, then shot dead when he did; a four-year-old girl killed when a tank commander sprayed her home's windows with machine-gun fire; and a man shot down for "carrying a gun," though witnesses swear it was only a broomstick...
...candid camera also documented another strange facet of British urban life. Housewives were shown letting strange men into their homes who were wearing only milk-bottle tops as badges. Phony TV repairmen were admitted by women who did not even have sets. Interviewed later, the same women all insisted that they were very cautious about strangers-until they saw themselves on telltale film...
...child against rickets, health authorities recommend a daily vitamin D intake of 400 international units (ten micrograms), which is easily obtained from milk. If the youngster's system makes more vitamin D as he plays in the sun, it is usually not enough to be dangerous. If he is given more than 20,000 units, a child becomes severely ill. In northern climes, most white adults make all the vitamin D they need from casual exposure of their face and hands to the sun and need no dietary supplement. They get ill on 100,000 units...
...take a tan in summer, when they might suffer from an excess. There are other bits of confirmatory evidence: the only relatively dark-skinned people in high latitudes are the Eskimos, who get all the vitamin D they need from fish-liver oils. Until the 1930s, when irradiation of milk to enrich its vitamin D content became prevalent, U.S. Negro children suffered far more commonly from rickets than white children...
...Exceptions: the liver oils of some fish, notably cod and halibut; egg yolks (small quantities) and milk (minute amounts). Milk and many other foods are now "vitamin D enriched" by ultraviolet irradiation...