Word: milked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...visiting the farms in Minnesota's sprawling Seventh District. On the road at 7 a.m. one rainy day, he drove from his 850-acre farm to a barn more than 100 miles away for a talk with a dozen farmers and their families and a spread of cold milk, homemade blueberry cake and chocolate chip cookies. "You must be a good man," said Dairy Farmer Robert Regnell. "You brought rain." Added Lawrence Wimmer, owner of the barn: "A Republican can be a good...
...lower chamber in the digestive tract. Traditional methods of treating ulcers have been of limited value: antacids, whether recommended by the doctor or the TV set, give only short-term relief, and some (notably that old stand-by bicarbonate) may cause harmful side effects. Bland diets-baby food and milk and cream-are unbalanced and unsatisfying. Antispasmodic drugs are of dubious value and have serious side effects. Surgery to cut out part of the stomach or sever the nerves that govern its secretion of acid is painful and expensive. Often it does not work either...
Cerf was a supreme gossip, and he had the gossip's alert eye for tattletale details. D.H. Lawrence's wife Frieda was a sloppy housekeeper, he noted, and years later he remembered a dirty milk bottle lying on its side in the middle of the Lawrence parlor. Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas were so grubbily dumpy that, on a visit they paid to Random House, an elevator boy automatically deposited them on a floor below, thinking they were going to an employment agency for domestic servants...
...government last week sprang an unpleasant surprise on Israeli consumers. Finance Minister Simcha Ehrlich announced wide-ranging anti-inflation measures to reduce a $130 million budget deficit. By cutting subsidies on basic commodities, the government forced a 25% rise in the price of such staples as bread, cheese, milk and chicken; gasoline rose from $1.87 per gal. to $2.40. Although opposition politicians warned that some cuts in the defense budget threatened Israel's security and the big labor combine Histadrut called a desultory one-hour strike, the majority took the bad news in stride. What annoyed many people most...
Another example of the conflict, in a variety of mammals, is weaning. When the benefit to the child begins to be outweighed by the cost to the mother (reduced ability to bear or care for other offspring), the mother will deny milk, though the offspring will continue to demand more. But parents have an edge. (Says Trivers: "An offspring cannot fling its mother to the ground at will and nurse.") So evolution has provided a defensive weapon for the offspring: psychological warfare. Some fledgling birds will scream with hunger?even when they are reasonably well fed?to induce the parent...