Word: milkings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...annual outlay for food subsidies from ?410 million down to ?250 million, a slash of 39%; prices will be allowed to rise in the marketplace accordingly. It means, Butler reckoned, that the food bill of every Briton will rise immediately by about 21? a week. Sample increases: milk from 14? to 15? a quart; stewing beef from 23? to 28? a pound; bread from...
Better than Birds. When he awoke at dawn, the grotto was loud with big & little squeaks, the air thick with circling bats. The mother bats had returned, full of insects and milk. Some hung themselves up by their heels and squeaked for their youngsters to come. Some picked the little ones off the ceiling or scooped them off the floor...
...police arrived soon afterward, burst open the door of the old house and picked their way through a jungle of cobwebs, worm-ridden period furniture, a hall jammed with bottles of curdled milk and old clothes piled higher than a man's shoulders. A menagerie of budgereegahs, canaries, pigeons, dogs and cats had added their meed to the midden. Cowering in a corner, covered only by a tattered red blanket, hunched the man who had screamed at the window. His matted beard reached his knees. The nails of his toes and fingers curled in uncut proliferation. The police soon...
...Creeping inflation, which is crippling French finances, pricing French goods out of the export market, impoverishing French workers. During the past year, bread prices have jumped 39%, coffee 17%, heat and light 15%. To millions of French families, meat, milk and tobacco have become rare luxuries...
...student body is not unreasonable, but it is human. If presented with the statistics, it is capable of taking co-operative action to aid the dining hall system. For instance, how many are aware that the annual cost of wasted milk has reached five figures? But when rules are imposed without consideration for the tender feelings of the student body, it is inevitable that friction will result in the form of antagonism against the dining halls. By any objective criterion, our dining halls. By any objective criterion, our dining halls are doing a highly satisfactory job; the food here...