Word: sweeting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. Harold L. Gray, 74, creator of little Orphan Annie, the oldest babe (44) in the comic-strip woods; of cancer; in San Diego, Calif. Moonfaced and round-eyed, gold of hair and heart sweet little Annie lived in a nether world of town bullies and murderous Russian spies, karate chops and megaton bombs. And for those readers who followed Annie's antics in some 400 papers and sometimes wondered how a nice girl could get into all that trouble. Harold Gray had a ready answer: "Sweetness and light-who the hell wants it? Murder, rape and arson. That...
...Image was extremely lucky when the tiring Captain's Gig bore out in the stretch and let him get through on the rail. Generally, a horse out in front is a horse out of trouble. That is where Forward Pass will be. The Dancer's revenge would be sweet indeed. But if he has to wait for the longer and more prestigious Belmont to squelch Forward Pass' Triple Crown hopes, it will be sweeter still. The Belmont may be another story...
...guide was a tall, thin black man with an African costume named Sweet Willy. Sweet Willy can rap pretty good, and when a woman inside one of the shelters complained "This isn't a zoo," when photographers tried to take pictures of her, Sweet Willy said to her, "How we gonna show Johnson?" That worked...
Leading us around, Sweet Willy ran into one of the marshals, and the marshal said to him, "Who are you? You with SCLC?" And Sweet Willy said, "Yep." Then the marshal asked him, "Where are you from?" Sweet Willy said, "Memphis. I'm Sweet Willy from Memphis. You ask anybody." That worked...
...Sweet Willy from Memphis (his real name is Lance Watson) is the leader of a gang called the Invaders. The Invaders are credited with turning the Rev. Martin Luther King's first non-violent march through Memphis into a little riot. But after King's murder, Sweet Willy decided that "We should do all we can to fulfill Dr. King's dream." So Sweet Willy left the real tough cats in his gang home--"Some were very young, some were temperamental and unsteady"--and came to Washington...