Word: milkings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hour. He opened the cash register, took out $70 and thrust it into his pockets. He gave away a series of presents-six dozen eggs to one sick-looking customer, a liverwurst to another, 30 slices of ham to a third. He poured himself a glass of milk and drained it. Then he finally strolled out and was gone. He was arrested in only a few hours-his automobile had no plates, and while this kept anyone from jotting down his license number, it made the car as conspicuous as a Brooklyn girl without lipstick...
Beggar Programs. But neither threat nor ruse stopped the invasion. The East Germans poured into West Berlin and out again, carrying their two pounds of lard, bags of dried beans, peas and flour, and four cans of condensed milk. All together, each parcel was worth about $1,15-not much by Western standards, but plainly a treasure to East Germans. Most came with identity cards of all their family, and some few friends besides, and got a parcel for each one. "I paid 28 marks for my train ticket," said one bedraggled housewife from deep in the Soviet zone...
...farmer's never-ending battle with nature. There he learned firsthand about the peasants' problems, set up a private welfare state for his own workers. He built them clean bungalows, saw them well fed from a community vegetable farm and a dairy that provided free milk for every child. In 1948, when the outgoing government tried to deny the legally elected Otilio Ulate the presidency, Figueres led a motley band of students, clerks and farm workers, many of them armed with .22 sporting rifles, to victory over the government forces. Then he took control himself for 18 months...
...Lincoln (Neb.) Sunday Journal-Star a cow did not give milk; "the vitamin-laden liquid" came from a "bovine milk factory...
...pair when she needs it. She is a great food sneaker, and loves breads, rich desserts, ice cream and candy. She does her heaviest eating when she's upset. As a child, Shirley stopped spending her allowance on candy once she discovered that a 10? can of condensed milk, eaten with a spoon, is the sweetest thing there is. Asked this summer to name the foods she would most like to have on a desert island. Shirley said: "Fudge, brownies, chocolate ice cream and orange juice." She loves television, often eats her meals from a tray before...