Word: sweete
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...expedition, Thor Heyerdahl, 32, had been to Tahiti in 1937 to finish a doctorate thesis in zoology. Like other scholars before him, he was struck by resemblances between the cultures of Polynesia and South America. Both regions have "stepped" pyramids, "megalithic" structures, elaborate feather-work. Both cultivate sweet potatoes and call them by names which closely resemble their ancient Peruvian name: kumara. The strange stone heads on Easter Island look a great deal like some sculpture in Peru...
...little man, swinging the clapper again, looked anxiously toward the east tower-and thence, clear and sweet as the day she was cast 193 years ago, answered Dona María de la Asunción. A moment later Las Chiquitas, San Pablo, Dolores, Santa Delicates, Los Angeles, Carmen and La Trinidad joined their joyous tintinnabulation to the grave duet of Dona María and Santa María. The wrinkled face of the little old man in the west tower spread into a wide, happy grin...
...headlines he made in Hollywood last winter, when he saw the one woman for him, were the worst yet. The fact that she also happened to be his host's wife caused him no hesitation. He wooed & wedded the girl despite the continuing objections of a California court. Sweet-faced Laraine Day was only 26, a girl of strict Mormon upbringing who neither drinks, smokes nor swears. The Leo & Laraine Page One stories did neither Durocher nor baseball any good. The Catholic Youth Organization of Brooklyn (50,000 members) is boycotting the Dodgers so long as Durocher runs them...
...Elmore's letter . . . moves me to pen a defense for Mrs. E. . . . I heartily agree that children are little brats and that having the unsolicited job of caring for them is frustrating, to say the least. I know, because I happen to have one who is unusually sweet and well-mannered by most standards of childhood behavior...
...Return, sweet Chaos: come, the Bad Old Days Before the Wise Men watched about our ways, When Ministers had not annoyed the Sun, Not much was Planned, but many things were Done . . . Come, even loathly Private Enterprise...