Word: peppered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Finally, as everyone felt sure he would, he emerged from his lowering cloud of silence and publicly castigated the Yankees. Along with some dark threats about overpaid players, he charged: "It is one thing to be beaten and quite another to be outhustled. . . . We must have more life, more pepper...
...invisible Oscar Levant; the brazen love call of the Winter Garden smash Swanee, groaned in all its original agony by blackfaced Al Jolson; Anne Brown's superb soprano raised again in the music of Porgy and Bess; and The Man I Love given an added pinch of pepper by Hazel Scott's post-graduate left hand are only a few of the courses served up in this lavish Gershwin feast. For dessert and liqueur there is a spine-tingling performance of the Rhapsody in Blue, arranged, conducted and played by three members of the original priesthood-Ferde Grof...
...House Special Committee to Investigate Food Shortages that the last time the production of soft drinks was cut in half (during the depression) more than half the operating plants folded up. Big producers like Coca-Cola Co. (with some 1,200 bottling units), Pepsi-Cola Co., Dr. Pepper Co., etc. may hang on until the sugar shortage eases. But for the smaller companies the outlook is gloomy. A drop in production will wipe out their slim profits...
...days later G&246ring met the Allied press. Fifty-odd newsmen (and some visiting Mexican generals) saw him seated under a pepper tree in Augsburg, fidgeting with a pair of sky-blue gloves. The sun was hot; so were some of the questions. G&246ring sweated, constantly mopped his brow with a rumpled handkerchief. But he lost his composure only once, when a correspondent asked: "What about the Reichsmarshal's statement that if 'the Allies ever bombed Berlin, 'my name is Meyer'?" G&246ring reddened, mopped, fell silent...
Mostly the newsmen let him tell his story as he saw fit. Under the pepper tree, and in interviews with his military captors, he composed a fantastic tale...