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Word: sweeting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Upon entering, an odor rose up around you and surrounds you still. It is the most delicious and fragrant and sweet-smelling of odors and one which you cannot buy, for it is nothing less than a confused compound, a farrago of a thousand smells. Even could you afford to buy the thousand bottles of perfume and eau de cologne, the bath powders, and the multiple packages of amber soap that lie in tissue-papered state, you still would not have smell, unless you could also the time, the long, bored months during which the smells gathered and deepened...

Author: By Karen A. Odom, | Title: Drugstore | 12/6/1979 | See Source »

...nauseous. You try to hold your breath while heading for the door because otherwise you are going to die, and dropped-dead on the floor you will not make a cosmetically fetching corpse. But you stop first and buy a package of mints, half-believing that your exhalation of sweet, clear breath will be sufficient to extinguish the world, or at least Brattle Street...

Author: By Karen A. Odom, | Title: Drugstore | 12/6/1979 | See Source »

Today he spoke short and sweet, and his words on the power play can be applied to the entire game--now that we have it safely tucked away in our pockets: "Everything went right...

Author: By Bruce Schoenfeld, | Title: Thrills and Penalty Kills | 12/6/1979 | See Source »

Advertisers want the kids most of all. And how do you get kids? Cartoons! Right gang. Now if you all get in a circle, I'll give you the names of some of those too-sweet 'toons. Dec. 19th at 8 p.m. on CBS is Dr. Seuss's "How the Grinch Stole Christmas," with the late Boris Karloff narrating; ABC, at 7 p.m. on the 16th features "Rudolph's Shiny New Year," and at 8 p.m. the next night, the always cool Pink Panther in "A Pink Christmas." NBC, not to be outdone, offers my personal favorite, Casper The Friendly...

Author: By Jeff Toobin, | Title: How Television Steals Christmas | 12/5/1979 | See Source »

Harvard responded with freshman Calvin Dixon leading a sweet fast break with a beguiling pass to classmate Lamax Flatt for a ten-foot jumper, Harvard sixth straight point and a tie at 40 with less than a minute remaining in the half...

Author: By Jeffrey R. Toobin, | Title: Texas Tops Cagers At Boston Garden | 12/5/1979 | See Source »

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