Word: skim
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...short, it was the milkman. He was a strapping fellow with two quarts regular, four skim and a pint of buttermilk. In the ensuing tumble they made a gallon of egg nog and two ice cream bricks. Another result of the wrangle was a fine little boy who was born speaking high-school French. For respectability's sake Cheryl has always tried to claim that I was in some way responsible for little Andre's occurrence, but I know this to be a falsehood. For one thing, no one in my family has ever been interested in picking up empties...
States are not as greedy in their takeouts from parimutuel betting at horse and dog tracks. They generally skim off 15% to 17%, and some of that goes back to the tracks to help cover prize money for owners and other operating costs...
...since Herman Melville pondered the whiteness of Moby Dick has a region of the spectrum been subjected to such eclectic scrutiny. Gass hoards azure words and holds them up to the light: "Blue poplar. Blue palm ... the blue lucy is a healing plant. Blue John is skim milk. Blue backs are Confederate bills. Blue bellies are yankee boys." He squints at past authorities on physics (Democritus, Aristotle, Galen), the bet- ter to glimpse the essence of this protean color in the corner of an eye. The mystery remains, more mysterious because Gass so thoroughly exposes its complexities. Yet the humanist...
...bulgaricus and Streptococcus thermophi-lus are essential to the yogurt culture, yet there is no federal standard for the bacterial count. If the yogurt is pasteurized, as it sometimes is, the bacteria are killed. Freezing inhibits their growth. The calorie content depends on whether the yogurt is made from skim milk or whole milk and what kind of fruit and sweetening is added. "Yogurt is not like ketchup, which all tastes the same," explains Edward Gelsthorpe, president of H.P. Hood dairy. "It can go all the way from a very tart, thick product to a sweet, mild, creamy product...
...year-old Soviet Georgians eating yogurt.) Some women believe it makes an excellent douche and a fine face mask. Scientists make no such claims, although doctors do sometimes prescribe yogurt for patients taking antibiotics. The drugs indiscriminately destroy bacteria in the intestinal tract, and yogurt supposedly replaces them. Moreover, skim-milk yogurt is a good low-calorie source of protein, calcium and phosphorus...