Word: sugaring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Puerto Rico, overcrowded (pop. 2,200,000) and long tied to a one-crop (sugar) economy, the path ahead was indeed uphill. The hardest fact of the island's life is that it has too many people and too little land. Of its 1,000,000 arable acres, 300,000 are in sugar cane, the cash crop. That leaves less than half an acre of land per person for other crops and food production, and much of this land is eroded and exhausted. Unless Puerto Rico can perform a near-miracle of lifting itself by its own economic bootstraps...
...Sugar? The 30-page program which last week arrived at the door of every Labor Party bigwig was entitled Labor Believes in Britain. One wag recalled Carlyle's comment to a young lady who declared that she had accepted the Universe: "By God, Madam, you'd better!" A lot of work had gone into its cherry-red, pink-striped covers. For over a year, an army of party researchers had dredged up basic facts. Recently, during a nice weekend on the Isle of Wight, the 27-man Labor Party executive, sparked by Morrison, sifted the data and started...
...Moderates" like Morrison clashed with Bevan's fast-cycling views. The upshot was a compromise. Nationalization was only extended to six more industries-water supply, meat wholesaling and cold storage, all "suitable" mineral production, industrial insurance, sugar, cement. Actually, three of these are already partially under state control; all can be controlled-Labor hopes-without complex reorganization...
Behind the high mahogany bar in Lima's Hotel Bolivar, the bartender poured a slug of water-clear liquor into a silver shaker, added lime juice, sugar, beaten white of egg, and ice, shook hard, then poured the mixture into a small glass. When Angostura had been sprinkled on the top, another pisco sour was ready for -the pre-luncheon crowd filling up Lima's best-known meeting place...
Every set went to the varsity, and Coach Barnaby was even able to test his doubles second-stringers without any ill-effects. About all BU got out of the afternoon were the oranges, gum, and sugar tablets provided by the Harvard managers after each match was over...