Word: soaps
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...elected, Bosch sent up reform programs like soap bubbles. Besides new hospitals, schools, old-age homes and better transportation, he promised to dole out 16-acre farm plots among 70,000 rural families. Another Bosch promise: economic diversification. Right now the Dominican Republic succeeds or fails with its sugar crop, which accounts for 70% of the country's export earnings of $140 million. So Bosch has pledged credits to small businessmen. He also hopes to coax more and more tourists to the country's four major hotels, its nightclubs, its cool, fragrant mountains...
First it was gasoline, then meat, butter, eggs, soap, toilet paper, garlic, onions, rice, beans, chicken, fish, coffee, shoes, and even, in this oft-steamy island paradise, beer. "Beer is unnecessary," said Fidel Castro, "in revolutionary Cuba." In their steady slide down the scale of living standards, Cubans heard last week that rationing would henceforth extend to clothing-shirts, trousers, dresses, and even to those snug slacks that Cuban women-and their men-love. Like any good Communist bureaucrat, the Maximum Leader an nounced through his Government Consolidated Products Enterprise that he was doing this so that clothes could...
...characteristic of the childish mentality: every cigarette lighting, tie knotting, or tea drinking is a ritual to the Glasses. The temple is the bathroom (which serves as a set for the major portion of the story "Zooey"), and gospel is scrawled on the mirror with old bits of soap...
...well, the infamous soap box orations which are a Berkeley institution are regularly atended by a distinctly "Beatnik" and semi-intellectual crowd. Several espresso cafes also serve as forums for this group...
...know this view is not shared by all publishers, but reporters are part of this profession too. and if. failing to make an honorable peace, we acquiesce in the proposition that news is a dispensable commodity like soap, then we shall be treated like soap peddlers and deserve it. Values and duties have become so con fused that even the suggestion of publishing without the consent of the unions is now regarded as a declaration of war. How the old editors who founded our press would have hooted at that...