Word: sweetener
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...colleague recommended sleeping with a frozen towel over your face. Other people descended into the catacombs, where 6 million skeletons were pleasantly cool. Météo France, the national weather service, posted hopelessly quaint tips: wet your draperies, and maybe even spritz a little perfume on them to sweeten...
...Franklin was openly questioning the morality of slavery. In an unsigned letter to the London Chronicle, he asked readers whether it was absolutely necessary to sweeten their tea with slave-produced sugar. Could such a "petty pleasure...compensate for so much misery produced among our fellow creatures, and such a constant butchery of the human species by this pestilential detestable traffic in the bodies and souls...
There are a few sanctimonious lapses, but for the most part 0304 (as in this year and next) has the spirit of a summer pop record. Like all pop records, though, it rises or falls on the strength of its hooks, and while 0304 works relentlessly to sweeten your day, it isn't so good at keeping your attention. Mendez's beeps, burps and rhythm changes are pretty familiar by now, and the slow songs really sag. It's a summer record, but maybe summer...
Maher says the Council never held an official vote on this proposal, but that it represented their general feeling that Harvard would have to “sweeten the deal†in order to get approval for the tunnel...
...came from the ruling Justice and Development party (AK), which until now has been an outspoken opponent of the war. "When there is no chance left to block a war, it means participating in re-establishing peace as soon as possible," AK leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan told deputies. To sweeten the pot, the U.S. promised up to $15 billion in grants and backing for loans. It also agreed to let Turkey send its own troops into northern Iraq once the war started; not to occupy territory or engage in combat, but to contain Kurdish militants along the Turkish border...