Word: sweeter
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...deaf-mute illegal immigrants, crammed into two top-floor apartments. Alternately signing and writing, the shabbily dressed immigrants--among them pregnant women and children and infants--described themselves as exploited laborers held captive by the Paolettis, a Mexican family whose deaf members had enticed them with promises of a sweeter life, then confiscated their identity documents to make flight nearly impossible...
Their reward will be lessons in rock climbing and hikes to high valleys, including spectacular Mahoosuc Notch. There, they just might get to taste the fruit of the cloudberry bush. One plant produces just one berry, which tastes sweeter than a boysenberry. They'll also find ice caves where they can retreat from the sun--unless there's a July snowfall that day (it's happened). Canoeing on the Rangeley Lakes affords stunning views and a chance to glimpse the moose, ospreys and bald eagles that inhabit the shores...
...sheer unexpectedness of the victory makes it even sweeter. After learning that Harvard would face UCLA (40-18-1 before yesterday's game), the top seed in the Midwest Regional, I had all but written the Crimson...
...have loved and lost has its merits, especially for poetic types like JONI MITCHELL, but to have lost and found is still sweeter. Mitchell has been reunited with a daughter she put up for adoption in Toronto in 1965, when Mitchell was just 21 and not yet a folk-singing star. She went public about her desire to meet her daughter, now 32, last December, but because of Ontario's strict adoption-secrecy laws, she had a hard time finding the young woman. "Apparently her daughter was looking for her too, so there's sort of a fairy-tale ending...
...turnaround thrills veterans like Allan Stewart, a 28-year Sears executive. "There is nothing sweeter," Stewart says, "than to see the people again waiting at 7 a.m. for the store to open...