Word: sweeten
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...fear that it is ill-judged." To most political observers, it seemed to be a stopgap tactic for holding consumer support while the government tries to make its stern economic controls work. As one economist put it, "The budget is really a piece of fiscal sugar to sweeten public acceptance of Stage...
...Chavaree a union organizer, said support for the union waned after Coop efforts to sweeten life for its employees. A "notorious" union broker [in the person of Patricia Astor], he claimed, had been hired specially by the Coop to case job-related grievances...
...press conference at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel the day before had not done much to sweeten her mood. "Jesus, where did they get those idiots...
...eggs and drank tomato juice (he spilled some on his work) and bequeathed to history an unexplained (and here freely translated) bit of verse: I shan't be absent, little snookie, Though I am not a sugar cookie; What life has brought you up to now May sweeten the farewell somehow...
...lone traditional touch came afterward, when the Destables handed around pink-sugar-coated almonds. But that did not sweeten the ceremony for some of their neighbors. "Most people have treated me very coldly," lamented Destable. "I have the feeling that many Bretons haven't yet accepted the French Revolution...