Word: bower
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...subsidiary, Britain's chocolate makers have become the biggest spenders and the most aggressive marketers. Last year they won 51% of the market, to outsell the makers of traditional British toffee for the first time. Ads for chocolates look like U.S. cigarette commercials; the bosomy blonde, blossoming bower and babbling brook that spell menthol smokes for conditioned U.S. audiences are in England frequently a backdrop for a chocolate bar. "I like plain, simple things," coos one unidentified model in the ads. "Plain chinchillas. Simple sables. And plain chocolate." This kind of talk seems to suit plain old Cadbury...
...FRANK D. BOWER...
...BOWER...
...have men and weapons now-we are strong," bragged the Red prince, who has fought a guerrilla war for the past six years. "This is what I have come to see," replied Souvanna. At night they dined under a bower of silk parachutes, along with Captain Kong Le, the moody leftist who set off the civil war last August by mutinying with his battalion of paratroopers. Souvanna hailed the "fusion" of Kong Le's soldiers and the Pathet Lao. But in private, the Communists admitted that they were as puzzled as has been many a Western diplomat by Souvanna...