Word: milkings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...grade school, Fred looked like the ideal American boy: he was a straight "A" student, captained his class soccer team, and was popular with both boys and girls. But at home, Fred was a finicky eater, drank only water and nonfat milk, and always went to his room when family friends called. And he was annoyed by his father's suggestion that they join other fathers and sons in neighborhood games...
...conducted the band members twice in preparation for the Saturday appearances and scheduled concerts. Already on the Band program are two trips, to Columbia and Yale. There will also be the traditional Dartmouth concert, and on the same weekend, an appearance before the National Association of Milk and Ice Cream Industries...
...built on a desert island. Three shipwrecked Britishers live there: Philip, his wife Susan, and best friend Henry. Clothed in the dinner jackets and evening gown they were wearing when the ship foundered, these little corners of England brave the balmy wilderness with a pre-dinner coconut milk hour and post dinner coach shell fingerbowls. The total effect is Robinson Crusoc as revised by Noel Coward...
...expanse of parkland made available by vertical concentration, no crèche on the 18th floor, will make up for the handkerchief of private garden . . . The privileges of ... gathering up a tearful toddler within a few seconds of his tumble at play, of quieting a squabble . . . without leaving the milk to boil over may seem trivial to architects; by mothers they are valued much above communal laundries...
...others, Gibson was wounded: his collarbone was fractured and a shell fragment had lodged in his leg. On the first day, the captain took stock of their supplies: a case of bully beef (48 twelve-ounce cans), two seven-pound cans of fried spiced rice, 48 cans of condensed milk, about six quarts of fresh water...