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Word: sweetheart (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...manufacturers, including Mattel, Remco, Ideal, Hasbro and Mego, have introduced broad lines of make-believe makeup. Toy and Hobby World magazine lists Remco's Crayon Children's Play Cosmetics as currently the top-selling brand. Remco also tempts the tots with Blue Ice Eye Shadow and Sweetheart Pink Lip stick. Hasbro offers a Fresh 'n Fancy kit that allows the girls to mix their own makeup colors. The prices of these play cosmetics range from $1 for a small locket containing lip gloss to about $18 for an elaborate makeup set from Ideal called the Gettin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Selling Make-Believe Makeup | 8/24/1981 | See Source »

...couple just stands there. When the song's over there's a lull before Elvis goes into "Blue Suede Shoes." The man's been dead for years, but the wife smiles. She starts talking about the Rambler he used to come pick her up with when she was his sweetheart. Before they got stuck here. Before the tobacco growing got so ridiculous that it took a quarter of a million in loans just to get a crop in. Before all those bad crops in the early seventies, too. He doesn't say anything. There was a time when Elvis seemed...

Author: By Thomas Hines, | Title: The King's Last Limousine | 6/30/1981 | See Source »

...damage done by love letters is peanuts compared with what letters have wrought in the spheres of politics, especially when love and politics collide. Warren G. Harding had a close shave in his quest for the presidency thanks to a love affair with Mrs. Carrie Phillips-or "Carrie Darling Sweetheart Adorable," as Harding once addressed her. Luckily for Harding, his fellow Republicans were able to buy off Mrs. Phillips and send her on a vacation that extended through the campaign. Yet even the passionate Harding must have had an inkling of danger when he wrote the adorable Carrie: "Destroy these...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Don't Write Any Letters | 6/22/1981 | See Source »

...other topic is of such endless fascination to the British public. One typical observation: "He might decide she's too young for him." A housewife from Lancashire went on the BBC'S popular Today show to warble a special song for the occasion: "Diana divine, my sweetheart sublime." The composition, she explained, was meant to help the romance along and encourage Charles to propose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRITAIN: The Sport of Charlie Watching | 12/1/1980 | See Source »

...Amato's campaign has been marked by frequent accounts of his participation in the pattern of legal graft, wasteful patronage and sweetheart deals characteristic of Hempstead Town government. Already implicated in a kick-back scheme that required town employees to contribute 1 per cent of their salaries to the Republican Party to keep their jobs, D'Amato is currently being investigated for having allowed millions of taxpayer dollars to remain in interest-free accounts at a bank that later loaned him $100,000 in campaign funds. A grand jury has also questioned him about his role in transferring a cable...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New York | 11/3/1980 | See Source »

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