Word: palmed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Palm Beach, where the average house costs nearly $1 million and mutts have been known to snack on biscuits shaped like Bentley sedans, this had been a quiet season. The Trumps have split but are now too poor by local standards to make much of a splash. There had been no divorce to equal that of Peter and Roxanne Pulitzer, which featured cocaine, a trumpet and a sexual threesome...
...other thing known for sure is that the complaint turned Palm Beach into a media circus. In the greatest assemblage of journalists since Operation Desert Storm, reporters from as far away as Norway descended on the enclave, foraging for the most insignificant detail. One tabloid bid six figures for the alleged victim's story, and another handed his business card to a hospital employee with a note on the back promising "$500 for the name" of the woman who was treated...
...Wholesale Club in Medford, Mass., a white stretch limo waits at the curb while its passengers roam the cavernous discount warehouse. At Tom's Barber Shop in Jacksonville, lawyers and executives sit down next to truckers and shipyard workers for a $6 trim. At Deja Vu, a Palm Beach boutique that sells used designer clothes, women who once sent their maids and drivers to the back door with bundles of high-fashion castoffs to sell now bring them by in person and stick around to shop...
...next month, he mailed 11,000 letters to food-industry officials. The first sentence was bound to catch their attention: "Is your company an accessory in the deaths of untold numbers of heart attack victims?" The letter went on to urge the food companies to remove coconut and palm oil from their products, as well as lard and beef tallow, all of which contain high levels of saturated fat. NHSA, the letter warned, planned soon to alert the public about "the dangers of highly saturated oil products...
...ignored. In October 1988, they were confronted by full-page newspaper ads written and designed by Sokolof and headlined THE POISONING OF AMERICA! The text identified the poisoners: food processors who used tropical oils high in saturated fats. "We implore you. Do not buy products containing palm oil or coconut oil," the ads warned. "Your life may be at stake." Pictured below, to the horror of several major companies, was an assortment of some of + America's favorite brand-name foods...