Word: sweetener
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...years ago; officials doubted the propaganda value of music. But it had at least a couple of staffers who were jazz buffs. Program Manager Eugene King and his deputy, John Wiggin, eventually made the point that, like it or not, jazz is a valuable exportable U.S. commodity. To sweeten its sometimes pungent flavor, the Voice decided to introduce the jazz with an hour of good pop music. To find an announcer the Voice held auditions, selected Buffalo-born Disk Jockey Conover, 35. His qualifications: a pleasantly resonant voice, the ability to speak slowly enough to be understood by foreigners with...
...mother. Aged Miranda is seeking to hire a companion because she thinks it is time for her elderly son to stop following her around. But the Fates know that neither mother nor son has any intention of separating. For 20-odd years, for example, Rosebery has let his mother sweeten his tea with "generous lumps," simply because he knows it makes her happy and he has not had the heart to break it to her that he has lost his taste for sugar. The rest of the household lump it more grudgingly: they yearn to be released from the tyranny...
...orange juice. On their honeymoon, he and Sylvia scarcely sit down to a cozy little dinner when he drags her table-hopping to meet a business idol of his, stifling Sylvia's protests with the reminder that it never hurts, as Willis always puts it, to "sweeten a contact." As he zooms along to corporate heights, Willis Wayde seems like the prototype for David Riesman's "other-directed" personality. He assiduously collects antiques, not because he really likes to, but because he finds it a useful conversational ploy in his business dealings. He poses in front of mirrors...
...splendor of your heavenly beauty, and impelled by the anxieties of the world, we cast ourselves into your arms, O Immaculate Mother of Jesus . . . Bend tenderly over our aching wounds. Convert the wicked, dry the tears of the afflicted and oppressed, comfort the poor and humble, quench hatreds, sweeten harshness, safeguard the flower of purity in youth, protect the Holy Church, make all men feel the attraction of Christian goodness...
...months. As an added inducement, the certificates will pay interest to March 22, 1954, even if used March 15 to pay taxes. Humphrey hopes to sell at least $1 billion of the certificates to non-bank buyers, but expects banks to take the rest for resale to corporations. To sweeten sales, banks can keep the money they pay for certificates until the Government writes checks against it, thus not depleting their loanable funds right away...