Word: milked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...doesn't Austin bid for a Government subsidy to give Samson away, much as milk is handed out in school lunch programs? Anybody knows that if Coke tried for that, the milk lobby would raise hell. The company also has to be careful about trumpeting the product as a good-for-you drink because consumers-particularly the poor-might be suspicious...
Refreshments are by Lyons, rather down-market caterers who produce more than 100,000 morsels ranging from simple buttered bread to frosted chocolate cakes that accompany tea (pour your own milk) or iced coffee (no ice). Experienced guests use the duplex technique of placing larger items over smaller, thus concealing the true dimensions of the load. During the afternoon, dozens of tea plates and spoons will be slipped into handbags as souvenirs. All done with gentility. Nell Jolliffe, who was awarded the Royal Victorian medal last month for her 58 years of dishing tea at garden parties, shared an insider...
...Treasury. Leon Jaworski has reported that Connally suggested to Haig's predecessor, H.R. Haldeman, that John Mitchell should be persuaded to accept all the blame for Watergate. Republican enemies of Connally point to a tape played during his 1975 trial on charges of accepting money from milk producers in return for higher price supports. Though hard to decipher, it seemed to record Connally and Nixon discussing a large contribution from oilmen. But the tape was virtually unintelligible and little was made of it at the time. Connally has denied that the conversation had anything to do with...
...prodigy to grand old master. He was only 24 when he completed the Pietà now in St. Peter's, only 26 when he began his famed David for Florence. The sketches done at this time demonstrate his incredible instinct for monumentality, acquired, as he said, with the milk of his wet nurse, the wife of a Tuscan stonecutter...
...jurors, the defense counsel and the psychiatrists are trying to tell us that Dan White [May 28] did not premeditate the senseless killings of Mayor Moscone and Supervisor Milk, they've got to be the insane ones...