Word: sugaring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thus, three weeks before he was to "have supplanted Governor Ellis Arnall in office, the controversial career of Georgia's "Wild Man from Sugar Creek" came to its end. No contemporary politicians except Louisiana's Huey Long and Mississippi's Theodore ("The Man") Bilbo had appealed so successfully to ignorance and bigotry. Gene Talmadge had been vehemently for keeping "the nigger" in his place. He had opposed high wages and labor unions, and had taken a dim view of education for the masses...
Able Food Minister John Strachey (whose wife had no guarantee yet of a turkey for her husband) had granted extra rations of an extra pound and a half of sugar for everybody, an extra half-pound of candy for those under 18 and over 70, and an extra eightpence worth of meat. But even though shops were more abundantly stocked with pineapples, tangerines and other fruits, Britons would not eat as well this Christmas as they...
...Talbert (see SPORT) a special sort of hero in Australia. Amazed that he had been taking daily insulin since he was ten, admiring Australians showered him with fan letters, flocked to watch him practice, wondered how he did it. He figured exercise was good for him (burned up the sugar). One time during a match he suffered an insulin reaction, popped a sweet into his mouth, went on playing...
While most collegiate tennis players are idle during the winter months, such is not the case for one Crimson athlete, Freshman Ted Backe, who left yesterday for New Orleans to play in the Sugar Bowl sports week tennis championships continuing through January...
...country including the two-handed racquet-wielder Pancho Segura, Bob Falkenburg, Seymour Greenberg, and Jack Tuero, are being invited to this meet. Its top-flight competition will not be new to Backe who ranked eighth nationally among Juniors in 1942 and in the same year advanced to the Sugar Bowl quarter-finals where he bowed to Billy Talbert only after forcing the doubles star to an extra...