Word: milkings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Milk of Magnesia. Dr. Howard McCrum Snyder, the President's 75-year-old personal physician, was sleeping in his Connecticut Avenue apartment when the bedside telephone jangled. Over the wire came the voice of Mamie Eisenhower: the President was turning and tossing with a stomachache. What should she do? Old Army Man Snyder was unworried; his patient had a record of stomach complaints. He recommended a small dose of milk of magnesia, turned off his bed light and went back to sleep...
When such a closure struck President Eisenhower early Friday morning, he felt pains in the lower quarter of his abdomen. At the first call from Mamie Eisen hower, Presidential Physician Howard McCrum Snyder, knowing his longtime patient's susceptibility to indigestion, prescribed milk of magnesia ; he figured hope fully that it could do no harm and might bring the upset to a quick end. But as Ike's discomfort became gradually worse, Snyder went to the White House to sit up the rest of the night with him. The President vomited repeatedly, and Dr. Snyder now knew that...
...When the milk-and-doughnuts man blows his silly little whistle, piercing my unhappy evening doldrums, all that occurs to me is what sort of refreshment I would vastly prefer to what he has to offer...
Uddermost. In Gillingham, England, Farmer Henry Haskett was haled into court for carrying a piano in a truck insured only for agricultural use, claimed it was a farm implement, explained to the judge: "Twice a day my wife and son take turns playing soothing music at milking time. Some cows won't yield milk unless they are kept amused...
...dousing with hydrogen peroxide (the entire stock of three drugstores), Lysol and isopropyl alcohol. After consulting the Public Health Service, Capital ordered the same crew to fly the plane back to Washington, promptly pressed it into service again with another crew. It hopped to Norfolk, Va., then made a milk-run flight through Washington, Cleveland and Detroit to Flint, Mich., taking 124 passengers between these stops...