Word: sweete
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Until the host of young people are provided with a permanent place in a revised economic order, there are before them two possible futures. They can drift along, bewildered, dissatisfied, listening for the sweet music of a Pied Piper's promises. Or they can sink their roots into the democratic earth, can get a feeling that they are both giving something to, and getting something from, our society...
...Sweet Music...
...pretend that they groan under the burden and would be glad to lay it down, but in their secret souls they cling to their places. . . . The friends and sycophants of the incumbent . . constantly assure their chief that the public good demands that he should not desert the ship. This . . . sweet music that is a curse of kings...
...their fronts in blood, all kissed the earth. One dead Roman had his arms around a tree. Young boys lay with their pants still creased. Tin hats were crushed and the heads under them. Farther down, materiel, the proud stuff of conquest, lay around-trucks disguised with a sweet artistry of cypress leaves, trailers burned out and pushed aside, wrecked tanks which had spewed out their metal guts...
...boiling or roasting, it gives off an odor reminiscent of a neglected zoo. Of European dog breeds, German dachshund is considered the most succulent. Cat, known as "roof rabbit," like rabbit, except sweeter and tougher. It can be fried like chicken or prepared casserole. Horse meat is dark, coarse, sweet and, except in young horses, very tough. Mixed with pork, it is used Italian and Hungarian salami and is the poor man's meat throughout Europe. General consumers in Germany get only old horses for food because the younger ones go to the Army...