Word: sours
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Sweet and sour news greeted the nation's sugar lovers last week. The palatable side: after 20 months of dizzying, nonstop rises (TIME, Dec. 9), wholesale sugar prices dipped slightly. Major refiners, including Amstar Corp., the nation's biggest producer, and SuCrest Corp., pared the cost of a 5-lb. bag of sugar by 25?, to $3.48. The sour news is that despite these reductions, supermarket prices are likely to continue rising for weeks before they decline or even stabilize, because the recent rapid series of wholesale boosts-seven in the five weeks prior to last week-have...
...Dinner's not done yet," smiles Joni, as the sweet-and-sour aromas of cooking drift through the open door, "but come back to the kitchen anyway. It's the best room in the house." Walking past packing boxes, a Tahitian rhythm drum and half a dozen guitars splayed next to a piano, Joni pirouettes proudly. "Isn't this a great old place? It was built in 1929. Look, it even has a hidden bathroom" (behind a wooden panel in the corridor wall...
This windy movie is an adaptation of one of Agatha Christie's alltime best-selling chestnuts (called Murder in the Calais Coach in America). The setup is simply that a killing is committed aboard the Orient Express, snowbound in the Yugoslav countryside. The victim is a rather sour American businessman of the usual mysterious origins...
...face shone brightly the day he took over the White House briefings and announced, "I'm a Ron, but not a Ziegler." But after 2% strenuous months and an exhausting presidential jaunt to Asia, an exasperated Nessen was displaying Ziegler-like ways, including rare press conferences, sour exchanges with reporters and bombastic language inflating the achievements of his boss. The White House press was beginning to wonder out loud, "How long can Nessen last?" Then, last week, Nessen admitted his errors and promised to improve...
Sweet Blessing The high price of sugar is not a sour taste but a sweet blessing. Sugar is a health menace that rots the teeth, adds pounds around the middle, and puts strain on the heart. So maybe the high price of sugar will make a heartier America. Bruce Lecheler Elmwood...