Word: sweetest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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FORBIDDEN fruit always tastes sweetest, and that is one reason why U.S. travelers in the Orient have often been tempted to buy goods made in Red China. Not until last week did the State Department belatedly drop its total prohibition against such imports and declare that returning tourists may bring back $100 worth of Chinese merchandise (see THE NATION). The dispensation delighted shopkeepers in Singapore and along Hong Kong's sleazy Upper and Lower Lascar Row ("Cat Street"). In some of the larger Peking-controlled emporiums in Hong Kong, English-speaking shopgirls stood like smiling spring flowers beneath...
People were on the field. Not me. I remembered the Dartmouth game a year before where a penalty on an extra point try had cost us the ball game. But that was a different team. Nothing could be denied our darlings. And the daintiest, the sweetest of those darlings did the job. The Big Fella, 240-pound tight end Pete Varney. When Varney moves there's no denying him. He jumped high in the air after the catch with the ball held high. The Yalie had him in his arms, but there wasn't anything he could...
...nothing else, the campaign has lifted employee morale. In the first of four contests, 14 of the 125 competing city groups have won $256,100. According to the balloting among large cities, Chicago has the sweetest stewardesses, Kansas City the cheeriest flight officers, and Paris the nicest reservation clerks. In Paris, Reservation Clerk Denise Boivin picked up $1,000 and, for her victory statement, borrowed a slogan from another company: "Everyone is trying harder...
...sweetest things turn sourest...
...your very perceptive Essay, "The Difficult Art of Losing," you overlooked perhaps the sweetest sour grape ever uttered: On March 9, 1832, Abraham Lincoln said, "If the good people, in their wisdom, shall see fit to keep me in the background, I have been too familiar with disappointments to be very much chagrined...