Word: sweeter
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...some ways Churchill--a sweeter man, more exterior, spontaneous, decent, forgiving--emerges as a more attractive human being than Roosevelt, whose magnificently confident facade concealed a character capable of immense deceit, chilling detachment and cunning superficiality. Roosevelt and Churchill had become fast friends in the early days of the war, when Churchill stayed in the White House for weeks at a time. Churchill said, "No lover ever studied the whims of his mistress as I did those of President Roosevelt." Roosevelt, on the other hand, told Labor Secretary Frances Perkins, "I'm nearly dead. I have to talk...
...instance, if you begin to notice that cell phone service deals seem to be a little sweeter, you aren’t imagining it. After a number of appeals, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia has decided that we can keep our cell numbers, even when we don’t wish to keep our current service providers. Using a Federal Communications Commission (FCC) regulation that requires “number portability” for land lines—which allows customers to keep their phone number when switching services—the court decided that...
This isn’t angst, it’s revenge, all the sweeter because it sounds so irresistible. —Andrew R. Iliff
...easier it will be for Ivy teams to climb the rankings in the future, as the voters’ biases against our league will begin to erode. Plus, Penn has to come to Cambridge to take on Harvard in two weeks, and the higher the Quakers are ranked, the sweeter the taste of a Crimson victory...
...infamous moment in our nation’s history—are now long behind us, but this small town has capitalized on its gory past. However, ghosts and ghouls are not the only attraction. Part of the town’s history lives on in sweeter forms. The magic continues in Ye Olde Pepper Companie, America’s oldest candy manufacturer...