Word: sweeting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...trio ripped into a rollicking instrumental. Normally, this would have sufficed to release a portion of the audience's anxious anticipation. Instead, the reverse was true; as the tension of the music built, so did the crowd's. The band sailed into the familiar chords of the immortal "Sweet Jane" at which point the anxiousness of the spectators was resolved in a rush of emotion. The audience reached its climax with the first couple of verses and instantly, everyone stood up on his or her seats. The spots fell down upon the main mike next to which stood an emaciated...
...which "cornel" is a disused form. Has the butterfly been caught? Not necessarily. It should not be overlooked that "kern" in its old Celtic sense means "a band of foot soldiers," which suggests "infantry," which (by a leap of sound past sense) suggests "infants": slack freshman faces staring in sweet stupefaction as an exiled genius speaks subtly of Lermontov. Snagged in the net, this dubious flutterer is obviously fake or freak. No matter. Pin it to the board and name it after poor old VadimVadimych...
Victory can be sweet even when it is easy. Chopping effortlessly through a moderate southerly breeze out in Rhode Island Sound, Courageous won her fourth straight race against Australia's Southern Cross by an almost embarrassingly wide margin of 7 min. 19 sec. That ended the best-of-seven America's Cup series and ensured that the old mug would remain bolted to its table in the New York Yacht Club, which has held it for 123 years. All that Courageous Skipper Ted Hood and his eleven-man crew got for their troubles was a few postrace swallows...
There are some genuine Robinson Crusoes, like Robert McCloskey, an author-illustrator of delightful children's books on his island in Maine's Penobscot Bay, who are addicted to the sweet air, the silence, the succulent lobsters and the congenial natives...
...International Red Cross and United Nations troops to give outside supplies to Greeks still behind Turkish lines. "We have personal pledges of cooperation from Turkish Premier [Bülent] Ecevit," fumed one relief official. "But the Turkish military on the island just doesn't give a sweet goddam." The Turks also said no to many Greek farmers who wanted to go through the lines to water and feed the livestock they had left behind...