Word: milkman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...employees of the United Press are charged to get the news ahead of the Associated Press, write in a style that "flames like a candelabra on a dark and muddy battlefield," and make their dispatches understandable to "the milkman in Omaha." They do not do all of these things all the time, but in 50 years of shooting for those mixed objectives, they have made the U.P. the world's second-largest and most enterprising wire-news merchant, and the shirtsleeve college for thousands of U.S. newsmen. For a profile of hardfisted, bustling U.P. on its golden anniversary...
...muscles are the 4,000 U.P. staffers who keep its hundreds of news printers thumping out 60 words a minute, in 45 languages, around the clock. Their copy must be crisply written to escape the editor's spike. It must be simple enough to be understood by "the milkman in Omaha,"* as an old dictum from New York once put it; at the same time, as former U.President Hugh Baillie once demanded, it is supposed to "flame like a candelabra on a dark and muddy battlefield." Between the milkman and the candelabra...
...agreement that the French embassy would be consulted on all matters involving French citizens. What seemed to outrage him most was the fact that the arrests were made in the dead of night. "Even in their worst moment," he exploded, "European police wait until the hour of the milkman...
...Beverly, hustled her into running togs and took her off to Malvern Oval for some companionable jogging and wind sprints. After breakfast, Dave hit the books again before he caught a train to his $14.50-a-week job as a delivery boy. Now Dave is a $47-a-week milkman, and he combines his work with his training. He trots around his 12-mile route in Madstone, a Melbourne suburb, followed by his panting horse and milkwagon...
Starting his route at midnight, Dave gets back home when most people are leaving for work. After six hours' sleep, he puts on track clothes and spends two hours running at Olympic Park. Weekends, before Dave became a seven-day-a-week milkman, the Stephenses would relax, sleep late (6 a.m.), go through only a light routine of study and running. Saturday nights they "lashed out" with a little dissipation: a movie...