Word: milking
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...expert and skilled parliamentary debater; Massachusetts' Henry Cabot Lodge Jr.; New Jersey's H. Alexander Smith; and the co-leader of the Senate, Arthur Vandenberg. They took a second look at the bill now under consideration on the Senate floor. As Taft had said, it was no milk-toast affair...
...sets his own price on all cattle sold in the country. The slaughterhouse, built with an Export-Import Bank loan, nominally belongs to the state; so do the ships that carry Trujillo's beef to their Puerto Rican markets. Dominican soldiers load the ships for Trujillo. They also milk the cows on his model 200,000-acre ranch, La Fundacion...
...Minute to 9. Breakfast is at 8:30. The Pope likes an Italian-style breakfast of coffee with milk and toast. Since the war, he has stopped eating butter. After breakfast, he sits on in his small private dining room, running rapidly through the morning papers. When the gold Swiss watch tells him it is 8:50, he rises from the table and goes to his private study. He makes a point of ringing the bell on his desk announcing that audiences are beginning, at exactly one minute to 9. Punctually on the hour, the first Cardinal, after genuflecting...
These estimates are based on demand and not need, between which the report draws a sharp distinction. "Witness the American male, who prefers steak and potatoes and apple pie to a better-balanced diet. Too many of us drink milk dutifully, but highballs gladly." If the U.S. were to try to supply all needs (minimum standards of health and decency for everyone) as well as all demands (all the goods which the wealthier want to purchase), then the estimates would have to be raised. The U.S. would have to turn out goods & services worth $200 billion...
...uninitiate has, in the running of a commercial oddity, a Greek owned restaurant which actually serves Greek food, paid decided dividends for the Athens-Olympia and its owner, John Cocoris. Greek cooking needs to be explained. Yaourti, for example, a Balkan food staple, is made by boiling ordinary milk, then cooling it, and running it through a strainer. It comes out thick, and white, and very sour; and some people who are not from the Balkans have trouble stomaching it. Baklava, a doughy kind of pastry, makes its appearance in layered squares covered with syrup. It is as extremely sweet...