Word: milked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...White took a snub-nosed revolver along when he went to call on Mayor George Moscone last November. Or that White slipped into city hall through a window to avoid the metal detector at the main entrance. Or that he pumped nine bullets into Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk, killing them both. The only question for the jury at White's trial for murder was whether the defendant really knew what he was doing. At week's end, the jury was still...
...resigned his seat on the city's board of supervisors, changed his mind, and asked for his seat back. After White learned that Moscone was going to give it to a political rival instead, White went to the mayor's office and shot him. Then he shot Milk, an avowed homosexual who had frequently opposed him on the board. Norman told the jury that White had leaned over the prostrate bodies of his victims and finished them off with point-blank shots into their skulls...
...does not let anyone in on the joke, doesn't even admit there's a joke at all. The playroom innocence of Kaufman's live show is a touch indulgent, almost always inspired. Sometimes at the beginning, a pretty girl comes out with an invitation to milk and cookies, a promise made good at show's end, when the entire audience is conveyed by bus to a snack with the star. But it is in Tony Clifton, with his crass, abusive desperation, that Kaufman may have found his strongest comic voice. A distant cousin to Lenny...
Edward Heath became Prime Minister when Labor was upset in the 1970 election, and Thatcher was soon named Secretary of State for Education and Science, where she gained a reputation for toughness. While demanding more money for her department, she cut out free milk for elementary school children, thus earning the cruel sobriquet "Thatcher the Milk Snatcher." Heath had agreed to her appointment only because he felt it was good politics to have a woman in the Cabinet. "The chemistry between them was not good," recalls a Cabinet colleague...
...been a prodigious profit cow for RCA in recent years, regularly furnishing about one-quarter of pretax earnings and in 1975 supplying 31%. But the milk was growing watery. By the end of 1978, NBC's pretax profit contribution dropped to 17.6%, less than two other RCA divisions. So Griffiths-"Bottom Line Ed," as he is known at RCA-went out and hired "the man with the golden gut," Fred Silverman...