In forty-two minutes they would contact Uncle Sugar, and hope for good news.

This meant a loan from Uncle Sugar to the West.

He realized that even Uncle Sugar expected some minimal quid pro quo.

What had Uncle Sugar done for me?

And by the way, why should incumbents be able to fly Uncle Sugar Airlines without paying?

That said, should Uncle Sam play Uncle Sugar for the industry?

A wage slave, even in brackets where Uncle Sugar takes more than half, is still a slave.

Should Uncle Sam play Uncle Sugar to high technology?

Junko dispenses cliches and money, courtesy of "Uncle Sugar."

This killing machine will lighten Uncle Sugar's wallet to the tune of about sixty-two million bucks a pop.

Don't turn Uncle Sam into Uncle Sugar Daddy.

That alienated Mr. Mosbacher, who complained that the industry wanted to rely too much on "Uncle Sugar."

The ward agreed that I was bucking for a psycho; Uncle Sugar does not give free trips around the world to Pfcs.

Gerashchenko has also been playing Uncle Sugar to the former Soviet republics, handing out rubles to republic enterprises that are Russian industries' best - sometimes only - foreign customers.

The cane growers' dirty little secret is that their own survival depends on Uncle Sam - a generous "Uncle Sugar" who protects American cane from foreign competition.

I bought travelers checks several places and some I mailed ahead and some I carried, for I had no intention of paying Uncle Sugar 91 percent.

"And since Uncle Sugar will be obliged to grant us a loan of one billion dollars for the privilege of establishing that base, our independence will be further enhanced," she said.

This load ... Well, Jake Grafton, Uncle Sugar's been paying you good money all these years while you 've been getting fat and sassy on the long grass.

Secretary of Commerce Robert Mosbacher says the industry can't rely on "Uncle Sugar," but he nonetheless offers a surprising sweetener: a proposal to relax the antitrust laws so as to allow co-production of equipment.

The Commerce Secretary, Robert A. Mosbacher, who leads the President's efforts to develop a television industry policy, told the Senate hearing today, "I think they're hoping Uncle Sugar will fund it, and I don't think they should depend on it."

Most of that money was never restored by Bill Clinton, and now that the economy is feeble again, the current Bush administration is determined to make sure the states do not again see Washington as Uncle Sugar, as one Republican congressman recently put it.

It's clear that his skills as a journalist came into play, in a novel that describes the way court-appointed lawyers - the ones paid by what the book calls "Uncle Sugar" - meet at the ballpark to compare notes and insights into how a tough judge squelches the lawyers' grandstanding.

Uncle Sugar, being the way the letters "U" and "S" were spelled out, was used in the armed services in place of Uncle Sam, especially when describing waste of taxpayers' money on needless equipment or stinginess of not providing necessary or expected equipment.

Later, he came to understand that the Frenchman was in the business of weapons and dope, if not directly sanctioned by Uncle Sugar - the local cynical nickname for the US Government - then at least tolerated by this enigmatic, godlike entity which overstrode life in wartime Saigon like a Titan from the clouds.