Word: sweetened
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Harry & Tom. In 1934 Boss Tom Pendergast, the corrupt Kansas City politico, was looking for a respectable name to sweeten up the noisome Pendergast ticket. Harry Truman, a likable plodder, had lived a clean life: he did not smoke, and did not like his womenfolk to smoke; he was a high Mason; he had married the girl he went to Sunday School with; he had been a World War I hero (an artillery captain, he saved his panicky battery from a German trap in the St. Mihiel fighting). He was a farm boy become county judge, with friends...
...Argentine passion for independence and horror of any foreign domination had been exploited by Perlinger's ultranationalists, who professed to regard anything but positive antagonism toward another power as a sign of weakness. If Strong Juan Perón really intends to sweeten U.S. Argentine relations, he will have to contend with this attitude...
Chemistry will win the war and sweeten the peace. Such is the categorical opinion of a man exceptionally well-informed about chemists. In a new book (The Chemical Front-Knopf, $3), Williams Haynes, ex-publisher of Chemical Industries and ex-editor of the Chemical Who's Who, this week told about some of the prodigious recent achievements of U.S. chemists. Many of them, in oil, rubber, drugs, are already familiar. But Haynes had some little-known facts to report...
...foods. WPB had provided enough glass jars, paraffin, rubber rings, OPA chipped in the sugar, and, with the Department of Agriculture's Bureau of Home Economics, passed out hints for spreading it thin: can fruits in their own juices without adding water; put up without any sugar and sweeten later out of current sugar allowances; use honey to replace half the sugar called for, corn syrup for one-third...
...heartily approve of your policy of sending TIME to South America just as it is without any attempt to expurgate it or to sweeten it up to South American tastes. I do not believe that lasting understanding and friendship can be built up on any basis but realism...