Word: sweeting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...March, make a killing helping taxpayers cheat the Government, then fade away on April 16. Now the Internal Revenue Service has opened a nationwide campaign of investigations, arrests and prosecutions to root out and discredit these fly-by-nights. At the same time, the taxmen have launched a sweet-talking publicity campaign urging people who have minor tax problems to seek help in preparing their returns from IRS agents themselves-a campaign that outside taxmen can hardly believe anyone would take seriously. Cracks one specialist: "It's kind of like asking the canary to visit...
...already summer at home, the sweet jasmine must be in bloom again," began a letter, never posted, from Nguyen Van Minh, a schoolteacher, worried that his girl friend might be seeing another man. "Do you tell him you love him the way you told me, lying there under the trees by the river, do you remember, Hoa? Your long hair brushed my face, my golden summer butterfly. Maybe you should get married. The enemy is very barbarous...This terrible war makes so many strange thoughts race through my head. I would like to jump straight up for thousands of miles...
...another name, will smell more sweet...
...with two desks and a wooden plank bed with a boarded-up window. There he was to spend the first 36 days in solitary confinement. He was immediately issued personal supplies-a cup, toothpaste, tooth brush, shirts, trousers, blankets, a teapot. The food was opulent enough by P.O.W. standards-sweet milk and half a loaf of bread in the morning, thick potato or cabbage soup for lunch, along with soybean cakes, or fish cakes, and sometimes a ration of pork. Later in the day a third meal was served...
...town house in which living room and bedroom each occupy an entire floor, also has estate in Southampton, Long Island. Throws jet-set parties, has entertained Lady Sarah Churchill Russell as well as Mick Jagger. Over the years has composed several hit songs (Don't Play That Song, Sweet Sixteen, Wild, Wild Young Men) under the name Nugetre-Ertegun spelled backward...