Word: tonic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Late Late Pumpkin. Two longer fables are also memorable. The first is a Cinderella-and-tonic tale called Passionella, in which a forlorn chimney sweep named Ella sits by the TV set one night when her "friendly neighborhood godmother" turns her into Passionella, a gorgeous movie queen. But the spell works each day only between the first commercial of Huckleberry Hound and the last blab of the Late Late Show. The other playlet, George's Moon, is an astringent parable of faith, hope and hostility. George is a worried little man who lives alone on the moon, counting craters...
...hopeful signs in the U.S. economy were more than just the usual spring tonic. Steel production hit 63% of capacity, with output for the month estimated at 7,500,000 tons-the highest figure in eleven months. A spring surge boosted mid-April auto sales 8.9% over mid-March as Ford and General Motors re called laid-off workers. Last week's production of 115,306 cars was down 7.4% over the preceding week, but still was the second-healthiest week the carmakers have had this year...
...hand in hand. "People are able and willing to seek the easy way out. Today they have the money and leisure time to indulge themselves, and they have been conditioned by the dramatic progress of medicine in the past few decades to believe that almost any pill, capsule or tonic is a miracle drug. People are disease conscious, and their fears about disease set them up for exploitation by the pseudo-scientific huckster...
...Duke End Tee Moorman: "College football is a business. After you find out the facts, the fun wears off. They give us pencils and paper at Duke, but no hair tonic or gasoline. A fellow needs that stuff in college...
...jaywalkers. Lagos' open-air market is a constant melee: picking their way through tall piles of blinding indigo or scarlet cloth, vast platters of red peppers on bright green leaves, and mounds of white salt, hordes of shrieking women peddle alum, alarm clocks, Hershey bars, live chickens, hair tonic-all from overloaded trays atop their heads...