Word: sugaring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Toughest obstacle to Núñez' success: Cuba's sugar prosperity. Observers in Havana thought he had a fair chance if he could keep up his killing pace...
Crammed with white-suited politicos, the six-car caravan headed west from Havana along the broad Central Highway. At town after sugar-mill town, Liberal party leaders had turned out crowds to wave at Presidential Candidate Ricardo Núñez Portuondo. By the time he made his speech of the day, at Pinar del Rio, it was 1 a.m. "People are sick and tired of four years of Grauism," he thundered. The guayabera-clothed farmers had stayed to cheer. "Fuera-out with them," they yelled...
...Paasikivi summoned editors of Helsinki's principal newspapers to the Presidential Palace, handed them a news item and an earnest exhortation. The news was the text of Finland's unwanted treaty of "mutual aid" with the Soviet Union, signed in Moscow's Kremlin. The exhortation: sugar-coat the news in order to minimize anti-Russian feeling among Finns...
...cube of sugar was melted, foaming...
...kind and amount of certain items found in pockets reflect conditions in the outside world, say the cleaners. During the war, quantities of sugar would perpetually fall on the floor when pockets were turned inside-out, and once a cleaner discovered, in a colonel's tunic, confidential information about troop movements...