Word: syruped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...same time, with cigarettes under medical fire and new brands proliferating, the major tobacco companies have been anxiously diversifying. Two weeks ago Reynolds announced that it would spend $100 million to buy Penick & Ford Ltd., Inc., a corn-oil refiner whose products include My-T-Fine desserts, Vermont Maid syrup and Cocomalt. Liggett & Myers last year paid $15 million for Alpo dog food. American's move was last, but by far the most spectacular...
...make sure that nobody throws them a "meatball"-a wad of hamburger laced with a stimulant or depressant-and they are given postrace drug tests, just like horses. The tests are so exacting, in fact, that one trainer almost lost his license because he fed his dogs chocolate syrup for extra energy. Caffeine from the syrup showed up in the hounds' urine...
Coagulated Syrup. The company's longest single item is "The Post Office," a sort of Our Town story as Kafka might retell it. A dusty, creaky, self-important postmaster rubber-stamps his way through bizarre, touching and humdrum encounters with the town's citizens. At skit's end, the postmaster is walking around with an inverted wastebasket covering his head. Poof! The postmaster disappears, but the basket is still there. This is typical of the evening's pseudoprofundities-here today, and a basket case tomorrow...
...pantomimic cliché that turns up endlessly is the in-place step-slide, in which a character appears to be trekking across a tundra of coagulated syrup. Considerably fresher, though not terribly pertinent, is the occasional very cool jazz accompaniment that suggests that all attempts to immunize Iron Curtain countries from the music of the decadent West have failed...
Harlem is also composed of sharp merchants and peddlers hawking "icies," cups of ice drenched with sickly sweet syrup. Its shops sell second-rate strawberries for half again as much as first-rate ones cost in Greenwich Village, and men can buy clothing for 9? to $1.99 in "dump shops." Everywhere is the smell of cooking grease and the sizzle from all-night fry shops that sell porgie fish or pig's knuckles or chitlins (hog intestines...