Word: milkings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...opening night of the first-grade play. Up to the theater door came skipping the prettiest little girl in the world-her golden hair in loving braids, her skin like pinks in a bowl of milk, her chin arriving at a charming little point, her eyes as wide and innocent as a china doll's. But the lobby was packed tight with squealing children and shushing mothers. How to get through? The wide eyes narrowed, the pointed chin shot forward, and daddy's darling charged. "Hey!" a five-year-old hollered as he pulled her elbow...
...milk a proper food for healthy adults? Is whisky a proper medication for sleepless infants? Last week these questions were being hotly debated in the medical profession...
Stone Starter. The U.S. dairy industry issues a flood of calorific propaganda, blazoning on hundreds of thousands of cartons the legend, "You never outgrow your need for milk-drink three glasses of milk a day!" The message is illustrated with drawings of three generations of contented consumers. In the U.S. generally, adults are drinking far more milk as a table beverage than people in the rest of the world, where it is usually reserved for children and for cooking. What put the milk fat in the fire was a single change of rules in the Yale dining hall: instead...
Partly in protest against a fancied inconvenience, but largely out of orneriness, the undergraduates started milk binges; many went back for four or five glasses, and endurance artists claimed to have guzzled twelve to 20. This brought a warning from Dr. John Seabury Hathaway, director of the university's department of public health, and Dr. John Woodruff Ewell, assistant director: "The normal, healthy individual can readily precipitate kidney stone formation by the simple ingestion of excessive mineral salts [in] ice cream, cheese, butter [and] milk . . . A good rule of thumb to insure ample dilution: two glasses of water...
Although urologists generally advise well-nourished, adult patients to go easy on milk, a direct cause-and-effect relationship between milk consumption and formation of calcified deposits (as kidney stones or elsewhere in the body) is hard to establish. Yet many medical experts agree with Dr. Ewell. Says Manhattan's Nutritionist Dr. Norman Jolliffe: "With an adequate diet, milk is not necessary for an adult...