Word: skim
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Keys tackle both head on. For children, they see no objection to milk, but no advantage in stuffing them with butter and ice cream. For adults, they would cut all three of these items sharply. The dairy industry, they argue, could actually increase its market by concentrating more on skim milk, low-fat protein milk and plain cottage cheese -good for all ages. As for meat, the most expensive cuts of beef are the fattest, but the biggest difference can be made in pork. By feeding hogs soybean or peanut meal, but not fattening them beyond about...
...Missing Pages. Expanded radio and TV coverage could only skim along the peaks of the news, leaving unchronicled, among other things, the inside-page happenings of the community. Many a forlorn Manhattan miss lost the opportunity to exhibit her face, or at least the fact of her engagement or marriage, to her neighbors. Many an executive, promoted as the New Year approached, made the ascent unnoticed. For want of want ads, the unemployed lost job opportunities, apartments stayed unrented, dogs stayed lost. Men were convicted or acquitted without public attention, the scores of sports events went unreported, Christmas charities were...
...farm near Wahoo, Neb. (1900 pop. 900). His mother died when he was four, leaving him, his brother and sister to be mothered, after a fashion, by a succession of hired housekeepers. He remembers farm life in general with pleasure, but he still dislikes cream because he had to skim it off endless milk pans...
...believe in idle gestures," said he, and gracefully helped the farm bill along to an agriculture committee that will probably let it mildew for the rest of the session. The pork-barrel bill went to the Public Works Committee for a word-for-word review that might skim off the lard that Ike rejected...
...onetime psychology major at Princeton, Fielding cannot resist skim-deep analyses of national temperaments. The Spanish are sweet and mannerly but also stubborn and ornery. The Danes, far from being melancholy, are "the Bob Hopes of Europe." The French, they are a funny race, according to Fielding, with a schizophrenic "conflict between generosity and niggardliness, idealism and cynicism, fieriness and apathy, gaiety and shrewdness." Fielding can be rough on Americans, too. He lashes out at "hog-mannered U.S. drugstore-cowboys," warns U.S. matrons with chassis by Hokinson: "Don't take slacks or shorts, unless you have a figure like...