Word: sugaring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Made of lime, sugar and pisco (a white grape brandy); sometimes a bit of beaten egg white goes...
Canada and Latin America in general were competitors in the world market in 1939. When the war cut off traditional European customers, they found that they could do business with each other. Latin America had vegetable oils, coffee, bananas, cotton, sugar and many another tropical product that Canada wanted. The Dominion, in return, needed markets for newsprint, machinery', wheat and whiskey...
...island. John Strachey's Food Ministry slashed several rations. It was worse than the bleak wartime year of 1941. Then a Briton was allowed a shilling and a half's worth of meat a week; now, a shilling's worth. Then he got twelve ounces of sugar; now, eight. Then, eight ounces of fat; now, seven. Then, four ounces of bacon...
...days before the opening, the boys had gotten together just to get the feel. Satchmo had warmed up, as usual, on a few bars from Mascagni's Cavalleria Rusticana, then for an hour they had lazed through old favorites like Basin Street Blues, Fidgety Feet and Sugar. Finally, Louis put down his horn and hit a few high Fs in the plain-talk department...
...biggest rivals, the A & P's giant Woman's Day (circ. 3,000,000) and 15-year-old Family Circle (1,200,000), which is sold in Safeway and other chain stores. American Family, a new version of an idea Mullen tried during the war, will sugar-coat its articles on family problems with cartoons, recipes, fiction and gossip about celebrities...