Word: sugar
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Long Knives. Last week hill farmers (growers of coffee, sugar and corn) and their wives crowded into Marsella, taking their preschool children for inoculations. All wore their Sunday best, the women in bright yellow, green or blue rayon dresses with black shawls, most of them in sneakers instead of sandals, and the men in white capes or ponchos and carrying long, narrow-bladed machetes...
Much like the trainer whose stunt horse finally begins acting out of habit and not merely for sugar, draft officials think it is time to tighten student deferments and other exemptions or else scrap the whole Selective Service system and substitute Universal Military Training. Draft officials sense that students and everyone else of draft age now know they will have to serve sometime. With a dwindling manpower supply they contend that this is the opportune time to decide whether to skimp on deferments or institute UMT. But until President Eisenhower and Congress decide which course they will take, the present...
...future of the human race for the next million years. Such a man is Charles Galton Darwin, 65, grandson of the late great Charles Robert (The Origin of Species) Darwin, and former Master of Christ College, Cambridge. His just-published book, The Next Million Years (Doubleday; $2.75), is sugar-coated with flowing, donnish English, but it contains a bitter pill for people with faith in human progress. The ultimate future of the race, says Writer Darwin, will be much like its deplorable past...
...breakfast the Borden family ate before Lizzie Borden allegedly took an ax and gave her parents 40 whacks: mutton stew or soup, sugar cookies and bananas...
Affandi's father, a clerk on a Dutch sugar plantation, wanted him to be a doctor, lawyer or engineer. But Affandi had other ideas. In elementary school, he discovered that he could get a grade of nine out of ten in art class, made up his mind to be an artist, and for 20 years struggled for recognition. To eat, he taught school, collected tickets at a local movie house, tried house painting, saving the leftover paint for his canvases...