Word: milked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Rubber Co. in Scotland, maker of the chic Wellies, which designed a buckled, foot-high Hobble Boot with a sole in the shape of a hoof. Angwin has ordered 500 boots at $24 each, and estimates he will save roughly $1,800 a year on veterinary bills and lost milk production. His enthusiasm for the bovine booties is so keen that he has sold over 100 of them to fellow farmers...
Keep calm when the buses don't show up, when people give the wrong directions to the field, when the team is stuck in traffic 10 minutes before the game, when the bus diver leaves with the play books, when the team drinks a hotel out of milk. Keep calm? Somehow, the football managers...
...quarter of a chain). But the furlong will stay because it occurs only in sports, as will the troy ounce (31 g, vs. 28 g for the standard ounce) because gold-bullion operations couldn't survive without it. As for the pint, the measure of morning milk and evening ale for millions, London hopes the Community will agree that it just wouldn't be cricket to abolish...
...federal Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta plan to study how individuals living near Hanford have been affected physically. In a preliminary estimate, CDC researchers suggested that 20,000 children in eastern Washington may have been exposed to unhealthy levels of radioactive iodine by drinking milk from cows grazing in contaminated grasslands. Other scientists are already attempting to determine the actual doses of radiation received by residents, a study that may take five years and cost up to $10 million. Concedes Hanford manager Michael Lawrence: "There is no question that releases from the plants in the '40s and '50s were...
...funding for the television, which was intended to be a permanent fixture for the room, came from two sources: $150 came from house funds and $250 came from "milk and cookie money"--a yearly allowance alloted to each entryway...