Word: sugaring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hours, opposing counsel argued the constitutionality of eviction injunctions based on private agreements. When he had heard both sides out and considered the overtones, tall, well-groomed Judge Clarke decided to visit the disputed ground-popularly known as "Sugar Hill." As he rose to leave, spectators noticed a portrait of Lincoln hanging behind the bench. Breathed one burly Negro: "I hope that judge has eyes in the back of his head...
...Sugar Plum Fairy danced to a set of camel bells, the Arabs to an accompaniment of carefully modulated burps. Tchaikovsky's flutes, piccolos and muted strings were drowned out by washboards, police sirens, breaking glass...
...Members: Board of Trade of the City of Chicago, Board of Trade of Kansas City, Chamber of Commerce of Minneapolis, Chicago Mercantile Exchange, New York Cocoa Exchange, New York Coffee and Sugar Exchange, Inc., New York Produce Exchange...
...Hawaii, where mongooses were introduced in 1883, the mammal-bird-insect balance was already out of kilter. Five species of rats were ruining sugar plantations. The mongooses got some of the rats, but the rest learned to live in the trees, where mongooses cannot climb. The rats got the tree-nesting birds, while the frustrated mongooses made life dangerous for ground birds...
Mongooses are still a hotly debated subject in Hawaii. Sugar planters, who rejoice in rat-free, ungnawed cane, are pro-mongoose. Sportsmen, who have tried with indifferent success to stock the islands with ground-living game birds, are anti...