Word: milkings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bernard. "If it is true that each dog carried a flask of brandy,"*says the Journal sternly, "then it may be said at once and with emphasis that no worse treatment of the chilled mountain wayfarer could be devised-far better today would be a Thermos of hot milk . . . In rescue work, whether in shipwreck or in exposure to cold on land, alcohol should be avoided as a veritable poison. If the rescued persons are brought into a hot room or given a warm bath, some justification for a modest dose of alcohol might be advanced, but certainly not before...
...ruling is "contemptible." WSB Chairman Archibald Cox, "the little Harvard professor," and his associates formed a "cabal to steal 40? a day from each mine worker." Economic Stabilizer Roger Putnam, who applauded the WSB ruling, shows a "sadistic trait," for he is "robbing miners' babies of life-giving milk...
...enough to show that this was a despicable speech, or that its author has never uncovered a Communist spy. The problem of "McCarthyism" is more serious, and has been blurred by Presidential campaign blasts. For the crucial domestic issues are not which pressure group will milk the Government driest, or how many tax collectors will get fired. The real issue is whether we can hold onto that handful of political and civil freedoms which make our system worth preserving...
...Feel It. Since then the Prince has been heaped with culinary honors. His appearance for dinner at any restaurant is royalty's warrant. Living alone with only a hot plate to cook on, he arises at three each afternoon and breakfasts simply on a boiled egg and warm milk. The business of his day starts at suppertime, when carefully chosen friends knock on the door of his cluttered apartment and escort him to dinner. Last week the Prince reached his 80th birthday, and all France rallied to wish him bon appétit. Some hundred of the nation...
...each class, Miss Frances asks her pupils to get their mothers, then explains what will be needed next day (some clay, an empty milk bottle, or a paper bag with which to make a Halloween mask). After that, she signs off, while hundreds of tiny hands wave a frantic farewell at hundreds of TV screens. "My," exclaimed one little girl at the end of school last week, "I think Miss Frances just loves us children to pieces...