Word: saccharine
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...debate in Seoul's National Assembly swirled around a smuggling scandal concerning some 92 tons of saccharin that had been illegally imported from Japan by an arm of the multimillion-dollar Samsung business combine. Charges of government involvement flew from the backbenches; indignant silence wreathed the Cabinet ministers of Premier II Kwon Chung. Then tall, tough Kim Do Han, 49, an independent Assemblyman from Seoul with a reputation as a street brawler, took the rostrum to question the Cabinet. With him he carried a three-gallon can marked "saccharin...
Things got no better with age. Whatever he did offended somebody. On breadlines he asked for toast. When President Johnson declared war on poverty, he went out and threw a hand grenade at a beggar. To lose weight he started eating saccharin-and got artificial diabetes. He fell in love with a promiscuous girl, so promiscuous she became a hostess in an alley...
Guilty Plea. This rapid growth has involved the soft-drink makers in a feud with the sugar industry, since drinks for the weight watchers contain such sugar substitutes as saccharin and cyclamates. Sugar refiners are spending $1,000,000 on ads to downgrade the benefits of diet drinks, claiming that "trying to lose weight by drinking them is like trying to lighten an airplane by emptying the ashtrays." Last week Royal Crown Cola, whose Diet-Rite has captured half of the diet-cola market, retaliated with its own ads. Calling its critics "sugar daddies," Royal Crown said...
...saccharin and its derivatives...
...with friends who gave him food and civilian clothes. From September 1961 until he made it across the border, Chan was constantly on the move, sometimes staying with a sympathetic cop of the PSB, more often working for the black marketeers of Canton running gold bars, ginseng, watches and saccharin upriver to Changsha and Wuhan. His boldest act was his escape to Hong Kong. He stole a government seal, used it to stamp a letter "authorizing" him to requisition a Land Rover from a PSB motor pool. He drove to the Hong Kong border, and the PSB emblem...