Word: milkings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Gracie has ingratiated herself with millions of Americans in such mad trifles as her One Finger Piano Concerto, her plugs for Sponsor Carnation Milk ("I don't see how they get milk from carnations"), her weakness for clipping her boxwood hedge with George's electric razor. In the '30 she popped up all over the dial looking for her supposedly lost brother, a long-running gag that drove her real, unlost brother, a San Francisco accountant, into hiding. In desperation, he wired Gracie: "Can't you make a living any other...
...well-matched antagonists are an agile-minded Red politico and a Franciscan priest from New Haven, Conn. Father Jerome Lukaszweski rushed food, milk and clothes to the disaster area: Communist Yasutaro Nakamura dispatched a task force of soapbox orators to stage a "Red Flag Unfurling" rally and launch a political campaign for the Red-backed candidate for mayor in this week's elections...
...contents, Millicent Stevens obliged: "A New Testament, one pen-ball pen, one blue-lead pencil, one double salt-and-pepper shaker, one small plastic box with green sample inside for upholstering, two Band-Aids, one Atom Bomb perfume, one string of safety pins, two bottles of partly evaporated milk, some books on health, a few religious tracts, three packs of APC tablets, and, above all, one tan dress coat, a $24 coat of my grandson's, who was in the Navy...
...girl, whose name was withheld, told the court that she first met Keyser in a dairy where she had gone to buy milk. He nodded to her, the girl said, and asked where she lived. The next day they met again at the dairy and, said the girl, Keyser asked to visit her. The girl said that she refused that request and a second one later, but that on Jan. 29 she agreed. "He said he would come about 9 p.m. and would give me ?I [$2.80]," the girl testified. The girl went to the police. When Keyser arrived...
...Herman M. Salk (brother of Vaccinventor Jonas Salk) has pioneered with tranquilizers for dogs; they not only calm the patient, making him easier and safer to handle, but in many cases they are better than standard anesthetics. (Cows get tranquilizers to calm their jitters when coming into milk.) Dr. Salk borrows another technique from psychiatry: empathy. "A vet has to feel what the dog feels," says Salk. "When I get a patient with a tense belly, I find my belly getting tense...