Word: sweets
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...African bottling plants worth $6,000,000, help Pepsi in its war with Coca-Cola. The plants are owned and operated by Africans under license from Pepsi-Cola, will have a capacity of 8,000,000 cases of Pepsi a year. In changing West Africa, where the people love sweet, fizzing drinks and where foreign businessmen are finding that they must hard-sell for the first time, Satchmo's long-holding C note was an advertising message understood by even the many illiterate citizens. Pepsi-Cola's C notes were also holding well. Sales in Ghana have gone...
...couturiers in Paris. On any day, she estimates, 20% of all U.S. women-or 13 million-are wearing one of her Maidenform bras; 30% of U.S. women own at least one Maidenform. In 115 countries, 20 different styles of Maidenform, dubbed with such fetching names as Arabesque, Sweet Music and Chansonette, shape the contours of debutantes and matrons alike. Maidenform has become a part of the language, thanks to ads featuring women who dreamed they did everything from shopping to being a toreador-while showing off in their Maidenform bras...
...even that members of the same family were split from each other. Linguistic and cultural traditions were literally destroyed in the forced movement of Africans to the United States. A new culture had to be created. With no education, no economic opportunities, nothing indeed but subsistence living and that sweet soft singing' in the cotton-fields, the culture which has long been stereotyped as that of Crown and Amos 'n' Andy was born. Its predominant features, to the white observers, were sensuous ones --sex and uncontrolled violence...
...technical virtuosity. He has improved a great deal since his last appearance in print, over a year ago. He has become much more concerned with the sound of his poetry, and he has learned to use allusion unpretentiously and forcefully. Ironically, he compares his seeker of "Success's own sweet cadillac" with the seeker after truth in Marvell's "Garden" ("where fruits are ranged by lusters on each tree") and with Frost's lonely traveler ("and thinks he feels the miles he has to strive before he sleeps...
...Anyone who fails to accept and endorse the sweet reasonableness of this entire program, herewith submitted, is to be sentenced to ten days in Yale...