Word: sugaring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...year-old daughter and a four-year-old son, does all the housework for an eight-room house (where her father-in-law lives), goes shopping every other morning, likes to cook, doesn't like quick-frozen foods, won't use corn syrup to stretch sugar recipes, serves the day's big meal at 5 p.m., and, up to last week, had never been out of Indiana...
...like an eager lover with searching fingers, [runs] penetrating rays into every crevice. . . ." Slowly "the earth yields [with] a sweet resistlessness . . . like the ultimate surrender of a virgin. Hens fly every which way. ... A cow moos and a bull . . . bawls. . . . Lillian sits under a great sugar maple, wondering...
What Cuba really wants to force out of the U.S. is an agreement to buy 50% of U.S. sugar imports from Cuba for the next ten years. And Cuba cannot be blamed for wanting that. She knows that if she does not cash in on a long-term deal now, when there is a world sugar shortage, she will lose out. Before many years the shortage may turn into a glut and sugar may drop to 1.8? a pound, as it did after World...
...mindful of sugar production in Hawaii, Puerto Rico-and the potent domestic sugar beet lobby-has balked at giving Cuba a good break. The U.S., too, has a point. It insists that Cuba not capitalize on the war, that its quota remain fixed at the prewar...
...deadlock is broken, the worst of the U.S. sugar shortage may end this year. If it is not, the housewife will find her sugar bowl empty...