Word: sugars
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Speaking of which, there were people at the convention who thought their puppets were alive, truly. Jeff Dunham, a rising star from Dallas who was in the touring company of the Broadway hit Sugar Babies, explained this frame of mind: "If you convince yourself that the dummy is really alive, that he is a separate entity, it works much better onstage. It is much more convincing to the audience. Even Bergen, who was far from crazy, talked about Charlie as if he were alive. However, it does get a little spooky sometimes if you let yourself get carried away with...
...contrary, whenever a nation tries to dispose of its surpluses, furious fights erupt, even among old friends. Australian Foreign Minister Bill Hayden has been thundering that subsidized American sales of wheat to the Soviet Union and sugar to China, traditional Australian markets, could undermine the bilateral defense alliance. Thais are so incensed by subsidized American rice exports that a Bangkok newspaper recently ran the headline BEST FRIEND U.S. CUTS THAILAND'S THROAT...
However, not all the news is bad. "Sometimes high tech science brought to bear on common problems does produce a low-cost simple effective treatment," Cash said, citing a treatment for diarrhea--a major child-killer--which uses water, sugar and isotonic salt. This treatment has proved particularly effective because all the ingredients are inexpensive and mothers can administer the medicine to their children...
...scientist revealed that the German Government had been conducting "extensive tests over a period of two years" which "have proven that the food value of the raw sugar (obtained from the sawdust) is equivalent to that of barley." The substance so obtained, he added, could be stored for a long time...
...plantation that Bill Edwards, the site manager, finally slipped her a key to use at will. When some Somerset descendants moseyed up from nearby Creswell to eyeball the preparations, Redford greeted them, and they her, in the lilting tones familiar everywhere as the voice of kinship. "Hello there, sugar." "How you doin', darlin'?" Said Redford: "The whole thing's going to be like one big family reunion." In the program Redford and others have planned, even the feature events -- a concert of spirituals, an art exhibition, the re- enactment of a slave wedding, a blues performance, an exhibition of African...