Word: sugar
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cuba last fortnight agreed to deliver 200,000 tons of sugar to Russia for $12 million. Though the price was low (3.05? a Ib. v. the 3.17? world price), Cubans were overjoyed, would gladly accept similar out-of-the-blue orders for the 860,000-ton sugar surplus that is still left...
Westward out of Caracas, a speeding convoy of official limousines and patrol cars snaked down the winding, concrete Pan American Highway. From the back seat of a Cadillac limousine, a short, rotund man in khaki took in the fleeting sights: trucks piled high with sugar cane, drowsy town plazas seared to a dry-season brown, the jet air base near Maracay, and scenic Lake Valencia, a shimmering turquoise in a chartreuse valley. But most of the time Colonel Marcos Pérez Jiménez, President of Venezuela, eyed a low, sleek, two-seater Mercedes-Benz sports car that rolled...
...Chicago, Middleweight Champion "Bobo" Olson, in a nontitle bout, took on "Tiger" Jones, the man who made a has-been of Sugar Ray Robinson (TIME, Jan. 31), snapped and slashed his punches with familiar authority, won his 19th straight victory, by a unanimous decision...
...Sugar Ray never looked worse. He slithered along the ropes, hung on, watching desperately with rolling eyes as the clock ticked off the rounds. Across the country, television fans squirmed to see the former champ chopped down...
After the predictable decision, a thoroughly beaten Sugar Ray still refused to quit. One of the finest fighters of all time was suffering from an occupational hazard: deafness to that final bell. "I know one thing," said Sugar Ray stubbornly...