Word: milked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This mixture puzzled Trilling, because she sensed something special in the first Radcliffe men. They seemed a sensitive group; men who preferred milk and cookies to the happy hour scene. They respected Radcliffe brains but "were by and large men who felt inadequate with competition, who felt women would be more tender...
...social structure throughout the '60s remained rigid, with few informal activities allowing men and women to interact, Nancy L. Rosenblum '69 says. Men asked women out on dates, and it was a stigma not to go out on a Saturday night. Radcliffe dorms served milk and cookies on Saturdays for the unlucky--thus advertising the shame, Rosenblum notes. A woman's social life was a matter of public record in the dorms, since all calls went through the bell's desk and interested residents constantly leafed through the sign-out ledger...
...FRIDAY AFTERNOON after a hectic week. You could hardly wait for the weekend, and your social schedule is booked. You want to unwind after the mental fatigue of attending classes and taking hourlies, so what do you do? You head for the JCR for milk and cookies...
...named Charlie Smith. Freed under the Emancipation Proclamation of 1863, Smith said he became known as "Trigger," a gun-slinging acquaintance of Billy the Kid and Jesse James. The spry, loquacious centenarian recounted tales that jibed with historical documents. One secret of his longevity: "I never drink green [plain] milk...
...nationalized American enterprise without compensation. A simply dressed woman who works as a seamstress in central Havana said that although no one is starving, there are no high quality foods and inadequate supplies of what is available. Strict rationing provides her and her fellow workers three cans of condensed milk each month, five pounds of rice, and one pound of meat every nine days. Well into her sixties, she recalled the times when middle-class Cubans could purchase a touch of luxury. Today there are no perfumes, she lamented, no cosmetics, and no bathpowder. She said she has money...