Word: sugars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pretty plant, with gay red and orange flowers shaped something like violets. In South Africa, where it abounds, Boer farmers call it rooibloemetjie (little red flower) and vuurbossie (firebrand). In the U.S. it is witchweed (Striga asiatica), a parasitic plant that sucks the life sap of corn, sorghum, sugar cane and many other crops, leaving the plants as rustling ghosts while the little red flowers bloom over their roots...
...Greenwood Lake, N.Y., only the Long Pond Inn showed signs of life. There the champ's camp followers-boxing writers soaking up free drink, ex-athletes gone fat in the jowls, the kind of women who get their names tattooed on sailors-swapped yarns as they waited for Sugar Ray Robinson, middleweight champion of the world...
...shuffled guards at all military installations, held Havana cops on the alert in their barracks. Rumors were flying that the bearded young rebel, Fidel Castro, holed up in the Sierra Maestra, planned to celebrate Batista's 24th anniversary with an uprising. Next morning the revolt came, in the sugar port of Cienfuegos (pop. 99.000), Cuba's seventh city...
...Gross national product for 1956 was more than $7.5 billion, up 12% from the previous record year. Production of most foodstuffs was up, with bumper crops of wheat, sugar and beans. Livestock production climbed 11% in 1956; fish nets bulged 48% fatter...
...Every bit as wild and woolly as when he won the middleweight championship from Sugar Ray Robinson last January, and every bit as clumsy as when he gave the title back to Robinson in May, Mormon Elder Gene Fullmer, 26, swarmed over Chico Vejar, 25, to win a ten-round decision and take a long step back toward a rematch with Sugar...