Word: milkman
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...nation went into 13-day mourning. In old Delhi a bride and bridegroom about to be married were seated in front of the sacred fire when they heard the news. They postponed the wedding and returned to their respective homes. A milkman emptied his buckets of milk on the street, crying: "Bapuji is no more. What's the use of selling milk...
...Breast milk is the best food, bar none. It's easier, cheaper than anything else; no rationing, no milkman to bring it, already pasteurized, served up piping hot, and ready for immediate consumption...
...musical child, there is a picture-drum phonograph for as low as $9.44. For railroaders, Lionel has a remote-control milkman who delivers cans from a car. For builders, there is a construction set whose aluminum rods and plates can be clipped together into towers, windmills, etc. The carriage-trade ultimate is a British import: a $54.50 horse whose springs, under the weight of the body, will buck and carry a rider across a room...
...Hindu milkman in Bombay thought of moving his 68-year-old father from the Lahore district (which will go to Pakistan). "We own half a dozen cows and bullocks and three-quarters of an acre of land. My father would hate to leave our village and breathe the foul air of Bombay. I, my wife and five children are sharing a one-room apartment with another couple with three children. How can I accommodate my father? But I must bring him down. I cannot abandon him to Pakistan...
Veterans College was betting that they would make good. Explained Director Jim Cunningham, 28, an ex-Marine pilot and Brown graduate himself: "We take the man in preference to the record." Among the men taken: a professional boxer, a milkman, a general...