Word: sugaring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bluebooks were dealt out at her first exam, she extracted the standard tools from the pocket of her blue jeans--pen, pencils, eraser, postcard. Then, unwrapping a dainty, paper-sheathed parcel, she laid on her writing board a spoon, a pink cup and saucer, a small white packet of sugar, a pink napkin. Beside, them she stood a thermos of piping hot coffee...
Only one objection arose as she drained the jug during the afternoon. A neighboring toiler protested that the gritty crunch of stirred sugar distracted her to the point where she could hardly remember the life span of King Aethulwulf of Britain...
...Melting Sugar. In New York, where trade in world sugar futures was resumed for the first time since 1941, the price fell to a low of 3.63? a lb. (Last August the world spot price had been 8.5?.) The big fall was due to prospects of a huge crop in Cuba, little buying by Europe and a 1948 U.S. import quota smaller than Cuba had hoped for. In a few months, after U.S. refiners had used up their stocks, the drop would bring down retail prices...
...letters to the Sacramento Union, and in lectures and letters for many years after, Mark Twain argued for the annexation of Hawaii to the U.S. He sent back able reports on sugar growing, the fertility of the soil, missionary activities (his California newspaper pals began to call him St. Mark), even had the foresight to see the islands as a "commanding sentry-box for an armed squadron." And his humorous lectures on the islands, when he got back home, gave him his first widespread reputation (he outdrew Actress Fanny Kemble 1,500 to 200 in Pittsburgh, packed London...
...Orleans' Sugar Bowl, Texas put on an aerial circus that fooled Alabama, 27 to 7. Afterwards, the owners of two pro football teams (Chicago Bears and Baltimore Colts) were on hand to bid for Quarterback Bobby Layne, whose passes ruined Alabama...