Word: syrup
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...polyethylene tubing running to a central collecting vat in the sugar house down the hill. Occasionally, just to preserve the true spirit of Vermont sugaring, they hitch up one of the few surviving teams of oxen in the territory and strike out into the bush to collect the syrup by hand. Sugaring lasts about a month and helps to break the monotony of cold and frustrating isolation that envelopes the winter weeks...
...phonomaniac family is becoming more or less typical of uncounted U.S. households. Mood music-most of it consisting simply of old favorites and not-so-favorites warmed over-currently accounts for roughly a third of several major companies' album sales. Such old grads of the whipped-cream-and-syrup school as André Kostelanetz, Paul Weston, Phil Spitalny and George Melachrino did some pioneering as early as the '40s, were later joined by a host of others. TV's Jackie Gleason became such an adept mood picker that his Music for Lovers Only sold half a million...
...Waltz That Broke My Heart (Gisele MacKenzie; Vik). Songstress Mac-Kenzie is sitting this one out, she tells the listener in her clear, unshaded voice, because the last time she attempted the waltz, it cost her that man. Her syrup-slow beat suggests that sheer lack of energy may have done...
Prime Minister Harold Macmillan wrote a prescription last week for the general practitioners who keep Britain's socialized National Health Service running: a 5% increase in their pay. The doctors scoffed at it as merely soothing syrup, incapable of curing their deep-seated financial ills...
...After a word from the sponsor (Corn Products Refining Co.-salad oil, syrup, cornstarch, etc.), the Attorney General of the U.S. grasped his lectern mike, crisply reported that the Department of Justice was about to start a civil action under the antitrust laws against General Motors, charging it with "unlawful activities which have given it a monopolistic position in the manufacture of buses...