Word: sweeting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Among the typically ambiguous drug-related lyrics that Johnson cites are Arlo Guthrie's permissive reference to "a couple of keys" (kilos), the Grateful Dead singing "What in the world became of sweet Jane/She lost her sparkle/ Living on reds, Vitamin C and cocaine." There is also Red Sovine's confession "I'm taking little white pills and my eyes open wide." Asks Johnson: "Well, what is the poor broadcaster to do? Do you think the lyric encourages the use of drugs, discourages it, or takes no position one way or another? The invidious thing about this...
...engineers than cooks. They concocted trick buns that squirted, fitted wings to cooked hares in order to impersonate Pegasus, and rigged dining-room ceilings to rain flowers. Every meal a production number. But the recipes themselves, Miss Pullar maintains, have been underestimated by culinary historians. She favorably compares Roman sweet-and-sour contrasts with Chinese cooking, their well-sauced meats with Creole dishes...
...thing should be implanted in that pea brain-that respectable murderers like himself are no longer inviolable. And that if he doesn't work to humanize policy, the likes of him will be killed by less scrupulous people. Finally, that political prisoners are the best guarantee of his sweet skin's safety, and that he better get them out of jail...
...victory was particularly sweet because the day before Radcliffe lost to the Engineers, 26-27, in a regatta that the Crimson hosted. Going into the final race Saturday, M.I.T. had to get a first-place to win the regatta, but was in fourth at the middle of the race. Then Fulweiler, in first place in the final race, fouled out and the second and third-place boats went to the wrong marker to give M.I.T. the race and the regatta...
...Seventh Avenue assassins who work for Women's Wear Daily don't care whom they cut up with their sharp pinking shears-even America's First Fiancee, Tricia Nixon. After her picture appeared showing her, sweet and sailor-hatted, with her intended, Edward Cox, WWD's men named Tricia (who is 25) "one of the best-dressed children in America." Then they went on to nominate her for the 1971 Goody Two-Shoes Award. "She dresses as children should," they snickered on. "She's definitely one of the best-dressed subteens in the country. Will...