Word: milkings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...singers withdrew the suit when Krick, an affable and convincing talker, assured them that it probably wouldn't rain anyhow. (Krick insists that he is only a sort of meteorological dairy hand who can only milk, not create, clouds.) But the incident dramatized the fact that Krick, almost overnight, has become one of the West's most controversial characters and that for better or for worse, rainmaking has come to stay...
...Stockton, Calif., Amos Alonzo Stagg, football's lean and slippered pantaloon, sat down to his 89th birthday dinner (half cup of pea soup, two ears of corn, peaches and milk-"Never any fuss about birthdays at our house") and made plans for his 62nd year of coaching. This fall he will return to Susquehanna University, Selinsgrove, Pa., where he has been co-coach with his son Amos Alonzo Jr., 52, for the past four years...
...patients whose ulcers are still active, there are such conventional horrors as poached eggs and milk toast. But for quiescent ulcers, there is a wide range, from broiled beefsteak, boiled lobster, venison and wild duck to cheesecake and pumpkin pie. Still on the forbidden list (along with strong drinks): pork, nuts, baked beans, clams, corn, cabbage, tomatoes, radishes and cucumbers...
...training course in Brussels, he led an austere life. He had little relaxation except an occasional motorcycle ride or an hour or so of his favorite music (Mozart, Bach, Handel). At parties, he might have a glass of wine, more often called for orange juice (he also likes malted milk, a taste he picked up in the U.S.). He was usually...
McKinney's Mexican settlement is no longer a place apart. Because of Father Vega's work, Texas businessmen donate milk and food to the nursery, the Veterans of Foreign Wars, the American Legion and other civic groups are fixing up a park for the settlement, and the local post of the Legion has invited Mexican veterans to join it for the first time...