Word: sweeter
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SWEET is the taste of victory, but sweeter still political triumph won against the odds or against long-prevailing winds. There was thus a special savor to the celebrations of many of the winners in last week's spate of off-year elections across the nation. Like the city's Mets, John Lindsay came from ignominy to take the mayoralty of New York, and did it without the endorsement of either major party. In Virginia, moderate Republican Linwood Holton seized the Governor's mansion, occupied for 84 years by Democrats. In Cleveland, Carl Stokes, the nation...
...Weyman was not inclined toward long-playing roles. He found that a succession of new impersonations made the most stimulating demands on his talent. If he had never piloted a plane, for example, how much sweeter the triumph of posing before fawning New York crowds as a returning aeronautical hero. He could not read a word in Le Figaro, but he came on convincingly as a French navy lieutenant named Royal...
...rejoicing as well as sorrow, celebrating a good man's release from pain and toil, and his passing into a happier life. Even the titles of the spirituals they play express a bittersweet longing for the release: "Just a Little While to Stay Here," "My Life Will Be Sweeter Some Day," "Take My Hand, Precious Lord," "Just a Closer Walk With Thee," "Bye and Bye, When the Morning Comes...
...Harris, trig though middleaged, lovely though unhappy. She needs transportation. There stands young Marco St. John, tall, dark, handsome and ever so resourceful. He has a motorcycle to share with the lady. As added enticements, he also offers Julie a bottle of ouzo (which is stronger than gin and sweeter than licorice) and a refreshing nocturnal skinny dip in the wine-dark Aegean. What is a twice-divorced damsel of 40 to do? She accepts, naturally...
...life. In politics as well as business, the most common rationalization is that the loser has refused to pay a "price" for winning. Henry Clay, who spent 20 years trying to occupy the White House, finally produced that famous sour grape: "I would rather be right than President." A sweeter reaction, "Now I can see my family," was used by William Scranton in 1964 and Nelson Rockefeller in 1968. How would the Great Scorer judge Eugene McCarthy? After losing the Indiana and Nebraska primaries, he sent no congratulatory words to the winners. His grudging endorsement of Hubert Humphrey was delayed...