Word: milkings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...strict "Quiet Sunday Laws," some of them centuries old, a poet may give a recitation so long as he makes no gestures and dons no costumes (only a Scotsman may perform in a kilt-others would be dressing up). The laws forbid game shooting (except rabbits), beekeeping demonstrations, milk deliveries between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m., buying bread at the baker's after i :30 p.m. (although it is possible to borrow a loaf and pay later). A Briton may buy toothpaste but not a toothbrush, may have his shoes repaired but may not buy shoelaces...
Modern margarine is made from refined vegetable oils (principally soybean and cottonseed oils) grown on American farms, plus cultured skim milk and minor ingredients...
...Unfortunate Milkman. Due to his connections with Mickey and Apples, Witness Genova worked steadily for years. But in 1947 Apples had a barroom fight with a milk truck driver and got his face badly chopped by a broken beer glass during the struggle. Genova was unwise enough to sympathize with his old pal, Apples. "This guy has got to go," Apples told him, "and I want somebody ... to take care of him." Genova refused...
Next day Genova had no job. A little after that, the milk wagon driver was machine-gunned to death. A little after that, according to Genova, a trucker named William Acosta invited him to dinner, "and he started telling me that he had seen Apples that day and Apples had asked him to set me up ... bring me some place where they could get at me ... So I told him why they were after me. See, the milkman had been killed already at this time. So he said, 'I'm going to say that I missed you, that...
College students are bound to feel the pinch as authorities generally stiffen draft regulations to milk more and more men from deferred ranks into the military, a high draft official told the CRIMSON yesterday...