Word: whey
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bushels (a year's crop) of wheat, 657,703,000 bushels (three months' supply) of corn, and hoards of butter, cheese, dried milk, barley, beans, flaxseed, sorghum, oats, rice, rye, soybeans, honey, peanuts, tobacco, wool, winter cover crops, linseed oil, olive oil, tung-nut oil and whey. Except for these market-depressing surpluses, the consumption of U.S. farm products in 1955 would be only 1% less than production. Obviously, the real key to the farm trouble is to find more, better and faster methods of unloading the surpluses, not building more and more of them by going back...
...means that a library is a place where good books are apt to get buried and need to be dug out before they can be dug into. As far as can be gouged. Inky has spent his life waisting his talons in an advertising agency ("That's the whey he was"). He has a Jewish mother-in-law who speaks with "an ageless bit of Joycey sholem asholem humorwit" - except when she takes out her teeth and talk." becomes Inky "all is fond mp-mp of when the she country, [tries] to and believes that a man should...
Scots, Who Whey...
...devil grip the whey-faced slut by the hair...
...failure in feeling was noticed by the earliest critics of Shaw. William Archer said of his characters that instead of blood "a kind of sour whey" flowed in their veins. The fact is that anger and indignation-the most intellectual of our emotions-were alone portrayed successfully; the laughing anger of Shaw must be compared to Voltaire's. The brief poetical passages in John Bull's Other Island are the poorest sentimentality; even the saintly figure of Father Keegan in that play occasionally arouses shyness. In St. Joan the pathos is commonplace and the mysticism embarrassing. Shaw hardly...