Word: sweete
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Actually, what worried big John L. was the depressing spectacle of 70 million tons of coal above ground (enough to last the U.S. at least 55 days) in the midst of contract negotiations. This cozy backlog was nothing to inspire sweet reasonableness in the operators. In three weeks of negotiations, the hard-jawed Southern Coal Producers Association had insisted on unthinkable changes in the contract. The operators wanted the miners to give up their paid half-hour lunch periods. They even wanted to kill the clause which requires the miners to work only when "willing and able."* To the operators...
...come off the wax. In her weekly sessions, she had worked 42 hours, making retake after retake, to record 45 minutes of music. At 70 (her birthday is actually July 5), the somewhat mystic, sometimes earthy little Polish-born woman is the acknowledged high priestess of the harpsichord, the sweet-sounding, twangy-bangy instrument she rescued from oblivion 50 years ago. She did not need much preparation before sitting down to record...
...Sweet Debauchery...
Interned by the Nazis, Expatriate O'Brady taught herself to draw by doing pencil portraits of other inmates. After her release, she began exhibiting neat, sweet Paris street scenes, garnished with wandering nudes and airplanes decked in flowers. In a Paris jaded with more sophisticated art, her simplicity hit the spot. Wrote one critic: "The only great painter of the New World" (TIME...
...near death from leukemia, the cancer-like disease of the blood-making system for which no cure is known. Manhattan Hematologist Harry Wallerstein took the child to Ossining because he knew that prisoners there were willing to volunteer as guinea pigs for medical experiments.* Chief Prison Physician Charles C. Sweet had no trouble finding a man willing to take a chance, although he offered no rewards...