Word: milkings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Democrats and Republicans alike began the week with caucuses to select party leaders. Texas' Lyndon Johnson described the Democratic Senate meeting as all milk and honey, while Colorado's Eugene Millikin said of the G.O.P. session: "There was not a single unharmonious feature." But there was some dissonance outside the caucus rooms of both parties...
...somber rites for Wilhelm Pieck. Ordinarily a somber man himself, the Chancellor laughed appreciatively at a gift from Agricultural Minister Heinrich Lübke (whose face turned red last year when Wine Lover Adenauer could not tell France's lactophilous Premier Pierre Mendes-France how much milk cost in Germany). Lübke's present: a bottle of milk, a token unlikely to wean the Chancellor from the grape...
...Milk and doughnuts will be available with the traditional beer and protests at this year's Smoker, the Smoker committee decided last night. The change is intended to keep the event, scheduled for Feb. 17, from "becoming an excuse for a brawl...
...unmagical words; the squabbles merely repeat themselves. Odets falls into a common trap: he cannot convey the peevish boredom of his floating prison without turning boresome himself. But what stems in part from lack of movement stems from lack of meaning also. Writing his play on an intellectual milk diet. Odets tries vainly for the rich ferment of wine...
Sagitarius. New England legislators will call an end to daylight saving time when cows stop giving milk on account of darkness. Billy Graham will ask, in a press interview, "What's the Harvard Divinity School?" reducing considerably the odds on him as the new dean. A U.S. plane will be shot down...