Word: milkings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ruled Tennessee politics with a benevolent but despotic grip, faithfully delivered, election in and election out, 60,000-vote majorities to his hand-picked candidates. White-maned Boss Crump, with a grandpappy grin and an eloquent gift for invective (he once said that an opponent would "milk his neighbor's cow through a crack in the fence"), gave Memphis emerald-green parks, good schools and libraries, roared around town yelling "Hiya, boy" at anyone who would look his way (and all Memphians did), got rich on an insurance company that everyone in his bailiwick clamored to patronize...
...last increase in the board rate, in 1950-1, was initiated when the dining hall suffered a $70,000 deficit. The rate dropped back to $14.00 when food prices decreased and students cooperated to limit extra portions of milk and fruit juices...
...Glass of Milk. As the Premier strode to the rostrum, looking wan and harassed, barely two thirds of the Deputies were present. All Europe waited on their decision, yet there was little to be felt or seen of the profound sense of history that had reigned at the London Conference and shone in its decisions. A bored-looking, frock-coated usher placed the inevitable glass of milk at Mendès' right hand, and in a flat, disappointed voice, the Premier began to speak. Mendès was off form. His theme was essentially negative. Bidding for the support...
...relief program ever undertaken by U.S. churches was set in motion by the Church World Service, a branch of the National Council of Churches of Christ. Over the next three years, 500 million Ibs. of Government surpluses of wheat, cotton, cottonseed oil, corn, corn products, butter, cheese and powdered milk, with a wholesale value of $150 million, will be distributed free. Administrative and distribution costs will be covered through nationwide "Share Our Surplus" drives...
...Plantagenets really lived it up. They dined on roast lark, ginger fritters and porcupine seethed in almond milk, and their halls were strewed with cartloads of rose petals. The Plantagenets' brides were not so hot, but their mistresses were every bit as toothsome as the ginger fritters. Such a dish was Katherine de Roet, the daughter of an obscure herald. She had scarcely settled down at the court of Edward III when she was nearly raped by a dour Saxon knight. The gay John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster, later prominent in Shakespeare ("Live in thy shame...