Word: sweetheart
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Above all, the nurses seemed enthusiastically dedicated to their calling. Their natural leader was Gloria Jean Davy, 22, one of six children of a Dyer, Ind., steel-plant foreman, and a onetime national "Sweetheart of the Future Farmers of America," who had recent ly been elected president of the Illinois Student Nurses Association; Gloria planned to join the Peace Corps after finishing training in August. Athletic Suzanne Bridget Farris, 21, one of three children of a Chicago Transit Authority superintendent, hoped to specialize in pediatric nursing, was engaged to be married next spring to the brother of another nurse, Mary...
Wilson's murder, an unsettling echo of labor's internecine wars in the '30s, came as a grisly epilogue. His career had been built on his crusading efforts to prove that the union's entrenched leadership had for years been a party to "sweetheart" contracts and other schemes to hold down rank-and-file wages in exchange for cumshaw from grateful contractors...
...Firbank's, but unlike that airy Edwardian, Waugh displays feelings that are as savage as Swift's; and in Black Mischief (1932), a hilarious and still timely tale of emerging Africa and declining England, his feelings find blackly humorous expression: the British hero, inquiring after his British sweetheart in an African town, is cheerfully informed that she was the principal ingredient in the stew he has just eaten...
...with a "pop-op" decor. Then suddenly the room was filled with 445 stylish, milling guests and the music of Meyer Davis' orchestra. And dancing among them, smiling, shy and lovely, was the person it was all about-Anne Ford, 22, who the next day would marry her sweetheart of a year, Italian-born Giancarlo Uzielli...
...even these two were a little too forced and stiff, and that was the problem for most of the other actors, too. Thomas King, playing Rosita's sweetheart Cocoliche, was appropriately moonstruck. Buddy Mear, as Currito, her rejected lover, and Chris Simmons, as her father, were simply wooden, and the scenes they were in never quite came...