Word: sugar
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Middlewight (160 Ibs.) Champion Sugar Ray Robinson, the greatest fighter, pound for pound, of his lackluster day, set his sights high. In challenging Light-Heavyweight Champion Joey Maxim, one-time Welterweight (147 Ibs.) Champion Robinson was aiming to become the third man in ring history ever to hold three titles.*For ten rounds, sweltering under the ring lights at Yankee Stadium one night last week, Robinson was right on target, bombing bumbling Maxim with a brilliant series of rights & lefts, throwing his punches in bunches and dancing skillfully out of harm...
Eduardo D. Gonzales--Chief engineer, Central Cunagua, South America. The company is a subsidiary of the American Sugar Refining Co. He supervises the largest and most modern raw sugar factory in the world...
David M. Kelser--President, Cuban-American Sugar Co. Treasurer and director, New York Philharmonic Society of New York...
Winston Balks. Five companies of Foot Guards, brave in their two-foot bearskins, scarlet tunics and white belts, wheeled in long-lined precision into Whitehall's Horse Guards Parade. Each man was polished until he shone: each had been issued a lump of barley sugar, which was supposed to stave off faintness (in at least three cases, it didn't). Sharp at 11 a.m., as the two-toned chimes of the Horse Guards' clock echoed through Downing Street, a slim, girlish figure in the cockaded tricorn, scarlet tunic and blue serge skirt of the colonel in chief...
...with the contributions brought by the Spanish invasion. Along with the expressive potency of their forms and colors," Rivera adds darkly, "the masks have the black humor that enables our people to laugh at death and the devil, follow funeral processions with music and fireworks, and eat skulls of sugar...