Word: sweeter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...urgent, intemperate, and barbaric...The cattle kingdom was not the cotton kingdom: it had no refinement, no architecture, and no leisured class--certainly no leisured ladies. Even now, few Texans slow down to look at their energy is far more phone to the masochism of overwork than to the sweeter masochism of nostalgia, a preference that has weakened them literarily while making them very rich...
What made the victory all the sweeter for Holt was that his family, adorned in orchid leis from his native Hawaii, viewed the entire proceedings. His brothers and sisters put the leis around the necks of the other Harvard players after victory was assured...
...Joycean compassion. He knew the perils of being priest-ridden, the curse of drink, the terrible gift of hurting one another that has remained constant from the 1916 "Troubles" to the present sad day. Yet he set it all down to the ineffable music of English that rarely sounds sweeter than it does on the Irish tongue. And he relished the Irish fondness for gossipmongering, playacting, and scenemaking that has made them, after the Greeks and the Elizabethans, the greatest dramatists of the Western world...
...swear From my eyelashes I shall weave you A kerchief With words sweeter than honey And kisses I shall write: Palestinian you were And so you will remain. -Mahmoud Darweesh
...first varietals on a market earlier entered by such other California wineries as Lamont and Inglenook Navelle. Among the best are three white wines of French ancestry: a dry aromatic Sauvignon Blanc, a smooth pale Chenin Blanc and a Colombard, a rich, fruity wine that is somewhat sweeter than its French cousin. Gallo has also produced several red varietals, including a full-bodied Barbera, similar to the wine grown in Italy's Piedmont. A surprise to many familiar with European varieties is a dry, versatile rose...