Word: vanilla
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...demonstrators heaved plates of asparagus and vanilla pudding at each other and the walls until police closed food lines and cleared the dining halls. Outside, the rioters rocked cars and threw snowballs at the police...
...Liggett chain (118 stores) may sell 400 Ibs. a month; after the LHJ fable, sales zoomed to 800 Ibs. a day. Other chains across the country reported the same sort of boom. And because the plain formula tastes so flat, there was a corresponding boost in sales of peppermint, vanilla and coffee and other flavoring extracts...
...style and elaborate it with floods of notes in rhythmically diverse patterns. Explains Manhattan's Tony Scott: "I want the simple cry of jazz that a gospel singer might put in five notes−only I may use 15." The effect is a bit like vanilla frosting on a beef pie−interesting, but not wholly palatable...
...tree's end products. The industry now squeezes marketable products from as much as 75% of the tree v. 30% in 1935. It has developed more than 4,000 wood derivatives, which are being used in an ever-widening range of products from asphalt shingles to vanilla ice cream...
...Stop the Presses" that Jimmy Parks and I stopped occasionally en route to Houston to fortify ourselves with beer-"finally, in a beer-blurred haze of headlines and bylines, Cook rapped on the door at the Houston address." I feel that you should know that iced tea and a vanilla malted milkshake were the only drinks I consumed that day or evening. I was with Parks from 5:15 p.m. Wednesday until we conferred with the Houston police chief Thursday morning, and the only drinks he had during that time were a glass of tomato juice and a chocolate milkshake...