Word: poco
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...salesmen sold caps with more than 25,000 different inscriptions; production rose from 240,000 caps in 1932 to more than 42 million in 1955. Caps with Arabic lettering went to a milk company in Beirut, Lebanon. Caps with "Pida Pepsi'' and "Quaker Oats, Mucha Nutricion a Poco Costo" went to Mexico. Caps went to fruit peddlers in Vicenza, Italy, to soft-drink vendors in Caracas, Venezuela, to pickle packers in Pittsburgh...
...each) before the bell summoned them back for the second act of Barber of Seville. The setting was a knockout, bright and modern-looking, and the heroine-this time it was pretty Roberta Peters-sang a tricky song he had often heard on the radio, called Una Voce Poco Fa. After that there was a lot of fine singing and clowning. Fat Fernando Corena sat in a fat chair and glared suspiciously at everybody; tall, skinny Jerome Hines wore a crazy hat, sat in a tall, skinny chair, giving him arguments. The heroine seemed to have two other...
...Carnegie's big stage, Anna Maria had gone through a program that might have taxed many an older, more experienced singer. She had sailed confidently and surely through the coloratura flights of Rigoletto's Caro Nome and Una Voce Poco Fa from The Barber of Seville, had expertly sung the difficult death aria from La Traviata. In her pink silk party dress, hands clasped in front of her, she sang her songs in a clear sweet voice that made one listener stand up and shout in rapturous Italian: "Un' angelo dal paradiso...