Word: syrups
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...drinks range from exotic but simple syrup and soda combinations, like grenadine and tamarindo, to elaborate specialties dripping with whipped cream. Hot drinks include mint chocolate (also served cold) and Russky chai with strawberry jelly as a sweetner. And for those with simpler tastes a large glass of "George's water" is offered free of charge...
...thus the disillusionment, the rude awakening, the shaking shoulders. The candy companies have succumbed to the scandals of modern-day industry. And you know it takes milk to make milk chocolate--or at least powdered something. And corn syrup is surely made out of something surplus sold to the other side...
Long Wait. In New York, the National Association of Purchasing Management polled its members and found that products ranging from aluminum, copper and zinc to paper (both shipping boxes and office stationery), cotton, chemicals and corn syrup were available only after long waits for delivery. The McDonough Power Equipment Co., which makes lawnmowers and garden equipment, fears that the new plant it will open next spring will not be able to operate at capacity because it will not be able to get enough steel. In San Francisco, Levi Strauss & Co. is having to ration blue jeans to stores because...
...reminiscent of the late 19th century, when many parents commonly calmed their irritable or overactive children with opium-based elixirs such as Winslow's Soothing Syrup, which were readily available without prescriptions...
...first contact with the big name professors came at a Currier House Ice Cream Bash given by co-Masters Paul Levine and Ursula Goodenough. We were amazed to eat ice cream with a Nobel Laureate while chocolate syrup dripped down his chin. But although we were nervous, things went well, and our experience at the Bash made us relatively certain that professors would be willing to talk to fledgling freshmen...