Word: sugar
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mill offense against Oklahoma A. & M. and plowed the Aggies under 53-0. ¶ Georgia Tech's speedy backfield ran rings around outmanned Georgia as the Rambling Wrecks wrecked their traditional rivals 21-3 to earn an invitation to meet Pitt in the Sugar Bowl. ¶ Unimpressed by the fact that the Vanderbilt Commodores had come to town with their best team in 15 years. Tennessee's Volunteers made Coach Bowden Wyatt's first season in Knoxville a success by turning back the visitors 20-14 and souring their last chance for a Sugar Bowl invitation...
...years had Vienna's women had a similar occasion for dressing up; archducal and bourgeois jewelry alike came out of hock or hiding. Demel's, Vienna's calorie-proud confectioner, combined Austria's two major treasures-music and food-in an exhibition of sugar figurines representing notable Vienna opera greats, e.g., Sopranos Maria Jeritza, Lotte Lehmann, Vera Schwarz...
...play, The Desk Set, after a reasonably bright start, goes steadily downhill by really going nowhere at all. As a feed-box for Shirley Booth, there is more to be said for it. She has seldom been better at the rueful smile or the sugar-coated sting. It would be inaccurate to say that in The Desk Set she does everything but recite Hiawatha, because she does recite Hiawatha. She also recites, in jive rhythm, Curfew Shall Not Ring Tonight. She floors an efficiency expert with her knowledge, she has a laughing fit, she has a drinking scene. Again...
...fatherhood. Forgiving Gable for his inability to keep their secret (ETA: next May), Kay chirped: "He certainly went all ham then . . . Besides, he's started to pamper me, and I've never been pampered in my whole life." (Kay once charged that her former husband, the bibulous sugar heir, "Daddy" Adolph B. Spreckels II, beat her with a jeweled slipper.) Someone reminded Kay that she will soon be deluged with baby showers. Said she: "Oh, dear! I've just finished thanking everyone for our wedding presents...
...simply a group of microscopic platelets-the elements in the blood that initiate clotting. These are too small to do any direct harm. But something else clings to their debris. According to the University of California's Dr. Henry Moon and Dr. James Rinehart, this is a sugar protein. Only after that, they say, does the cholesterol appear. And they do not believe that the sugar protein is the original villain: that, the San Francisco researchers contend, is a deficiency of vitamin B 6 (found in liver and egg yolk...