Word: sugar
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...setting is a British-governed island in the West Indies, and the problems involved are as numerous and various as the characters. Sugar Planter Maxwell Fleury suspects that he has Negro blood. His mother is reluctant to assure him that he has not, because it would mean admitting that Maxwell's real father was a 100% white with whom she committed adultery. Maxwell also suspects his wife Sylvia of an affair with a retired colonel, so he throttles the officer and is soon suspected of murder by the chief of police. Meanwhile, Carl Bradshaw, middle-aging reporter...
...Grior, the much publicized Negro halfback for the University of Pittsburgh, has earned the respect of North and South alike after his performance in the Sugar Bowl against Georgia Tech on New Year's day. He was repeatedly cheered during the game and received praise from all for his performance, despite his being involved in the penalty against Pitt which set up Tech's only and winning touchdown of the game...
...believe that most of America was shocked by the attitude of Georgia's Governor Marvin Griffin to the Sugar Bowl game in which a Negro will be on the team opposing Georgia Tech [Dec. 12]. For once the students demonstrated that there is nothing wrong with our youth, that the nation would be better off in their hands than in the hands of some of these peddlers of hate...
...averted, and in 33 years goateed Dr. Matas raised Tulane's banner high. He was one of the first surgeons to operate behind a screen of sheets soaked in carbolic acid in an effort to achieve sterile conditions, one of the first to use drip infusions (such as sugar and salt solutions) into veins. And he invented a daring operation to open and then stitch together an artery which had developed an aneurysm (like a blister on an inner tube). When Matas retired at 67, the trustees imported Ochsner from South Dakota (by way of St. Louis, Zurich, Chicago...
...Once Sugar Ray had been the best fighter, pound for pound, in the professional prize ring. He would never be that good again, but he was still good enough...