Word: sweeting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Bibliophile. Examination of the daily news summary tends to substantiate the staff's contention that it gives the President-referred to as RN in the digest-the bitter with the sweet. Last week, for instance, it contained the caustic appraisals of Vice President Spiro Agnew that came in response to Agnew's attack on the McGovern-Hatfield end-the-war amendment. It also took note of Senator Edward Kennedy's statement that he was "shocked and disappointed" by the Nixon decision to retain quotas on oil imports...
...long been confined to the South because its wind-borne spores do not survive the dryness of northern summers. Last year a new and more deadly mutant strain of the leaf blight appeared, and this year it spread north from Florida and Georgia. Farmers use chemical sprays to protect sweet table corn from the fungus, but spraying weekly and after every rain is too costly for the growers of corn raised for animal feed...
...Scotch a day and spends a lot of his time scheming to get his wife and his best friend's wife into bed with him at the same time. Maurice is a little short on charm, but any man with some of his phobias-sour white wines, sweet feminine conversations, more-secular-than-thou swinging clerics-can't be all bad. His pub, like many in England, has a legendary ghost, a 17th century scholar and necromancer who conjured a leafy monster to life in the backyard for purposes of terror and mayhem. Naturally, both ghost and monster...
...huge loft surrounded us with the rap of rain on the roof and the sweet, heavy smell...
Desert Dance. As scientists, they are propelled into a euphoria of creativity. As men, they are overwhelmed. Harold's wife has left quickly to be replaced by Maryann, a sweet, yielding office worker who becomes the mistress-mother that father and son need. She is the link to humanity and joy, a sprite who dances solo on the desert floor in tights and shucks her M.I.T. sweatshirt for sunbathing in mixed company...