Word: flours
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...modest. Hungry Americans are well acquainted with the company's pantry of 235 branded products, including the nation's best-selling coffee, Maxwell House; its biggest-selling frozen foods, Birds Eye; such old staples as Baker's cooking chocolate, Jell-O and Swans Down cake flour; and its top-selling dog meal, Gaines. General Foods' products go from breakfast (Post's cereals) to warm nightcaps (Postum, Sanka), also wash the pots and pans that its foods are cooked in (S.O.S. Scouring Pads...
...such a nice punch for serving at Christmas time"), Pentecost Cake (black devil's food), and Prophet's Pulse (a vegetable and egg dish). For church suppers, Author O'Brien recommends what she calls a Scripture Cake: 4½ cups I Kings 4:22 (flour...
...increase her wealth by no less than 41%." Then the fun began. While a jazz band blared and soot bombs burst in air, No. 2 Tory Butler plunged stoically onward with his nuclear-energy speech, wearing a wintry smile and, progressively, two ripe tomatoes, a ghoulish facial paste of flour and eggs, wreaths of toilet paper and, finally, foamy spray from a battery of fire extinguishers. Among the other casualties: a photographer kayoed by a huge cabbage featly thrown, a constable hurled through a plate-glass window, four exuberant students collared for what a magistrate called "sheer hooliganism." After...
AFGHANISTAN. This small (pop. 12 million) but strategic country has accepted $145 million in Soviet credits, now ranks among the five top recipients of Russian aid. The bulk of the Soviet money has gone to finance arms purchases, hydroelectric projects, grain elevators, a flour mill and a bakery. The Russians' most conspicuously successful gesture in winning Afghan good will was paving the streets of Kabul-a project that had been turned down by the U.S. as economically unproductive. Despite signs that its rulers are worried at the prospect of sinking too deep into the Soviet embrace, nearly half...
...have a word for it. The word is yok, which means, "There isn't any." It is yok for coffee and chocolate, knives and forks, writing paper and ink, appliances and spare parts. Had it not been for U.S. aid, it would have been yok this year for flour...