Word: milking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From cluttered counters at the curbs, salesmen chanted: "Chega aqui, chega aqui" (stop here, stop here). Grinning Mineiros bought spun candy, tapir skins, plastic belts, holy pictures, soccer balls, coconut-milk gum. By the thousands they surged across the little bridge over the Maranhão river, and milled up the three-quarter-mile hill in sluggish serpentine. The town bank advertised: "We change money for alms...
...musty old palace. In two three-hour periods he managed to get in 151 individual interviews. (Grumbled one Ecuadorian: "I didn't have time even to greet him properly.") At 1:30 he passed up Ecuador's hearty midday meal, raided an office icebox for sandwiches and milk straight from one of his own farms, then got to work again. "What, no siesta?" exclaimed incredulous Ecuadorians...
...know. He knew that postage alone had cost him $700 in one year. He admitted that it had taken most of his savings. Said McAllister: "I spent as much as I could spare. Don't you think it's more important for kids to have milk and shoes than to watch the bankroll...
...round rump a plumpish neck narrows toward a tiny head; from above a sparse mustache, a pair of trusting eyes peer myopically but ingratiatingly at the world. In the words of the greatest living authority on shmoos: "They lays aigs at th' slightest excuse! They also gives milk. And as fo' meat-broiled, they makes th' finest steaks; fried, they come out th' yummiest chicken." The shmoo is so sensitive and so eager to please that when a human merely looks at it with a faint suggestion of hunger, the animal falls flat on its back...
...contrast with this, the man of good will may feel, such straightforward, old-fashioned competitive concepts as the Teutonic "frightfulness" (Schrecklichkeit), or the discredited American flying wedge seem as mild as mother's milk...