Word: milkings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...gradual warming of the arctic climate (TIME, July 26) may eventually make the barren lands flow with milk and honey. But as the warm temperature moves northward, its shift produces unpleasant as well as pleasant effects. Last week Dr. Rene Pomerleau, of the Canadian government's forest pathology laboratory, warned that birch forests are dying all over northern New England and eastern Canada. After a few seasons of unusually high soil temperatures, the trees die back at the tops. Already, said Pomerleau, much timber has been affected. If the dying trees are not harvested soon, fungi will destroy them...
...coatless Princeton freshman tried to explain why he didn't like eating in Commons. All the while he eyed the milk pitcher and bit his dixie drinking...
While he talked, the plastic spinach dish went around the table once. The milk pitcher was filled and emptied and the waiter started calling for the dishes. He perched a coffee pot on the table edge as the hall began clearing...
...either party can approach his record of work in the 1954 campaign. By Election Day, Nixon will have covered more than 25,000 miles, to make more than 200 speeches in 31 states (not counting revisits). On tour he subsists mostly on tomato soup, milk and hamburgers, drives himself unmercifully 16 to 20 hours a day. The pace has melted fat off his middle and flattened his chipmunky cheeks. Last week the youthful Old Pro was off again in his chartered Convair on his fourth and final cross-country swing of the 1954 campaign...
...Rockefeller was walking proof that it is better to be healthy than wealthy-and that all the money in the world won't ward off sickness. But when the BBC revived the old legend that the millionaire's stomach was so weak he had to live on milk and crackers, John D. Rockefeller Jr., no Milquetoast, rose up to deny the story. In a letter to the British publication, the Listener, John D. Jr. wrote: "The story .. . about my father's living simply on milk was entirely fictitious . . . Drinking milk was not any more of a habit...