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Word: sweeting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...FIREFIGHTER leans earnestly forward and, motioning towards the others drinking coffee around the firehouse's kitchen table, says, "The first thing you've gotta learn is not to pay any attention to the bull these guys are feeding you about how sweet life is around here. I mean, this place is fucking crazy. It's a fucking fantasy island...

Author: By David Beach, | Title: Life in the Firehouse (Or, The Fantasy Island In Our Own Back Yard) | 5/26/1978 | See Source »

...spreading their blankets, unpacking their Frisbees, getting one toke over the line and window-shopping the small army of pushcart food vendors already in business. There are shishkebab carts, doughnut-and-apple-juice carts, organic-bread carts and, later, one kimono-clad Occidental mixing onions, ground beef, celery and sweet peppers in a charcoal-fired wok (yummy). Suddenly, from behind a 20-ft.-high wall of amplifiers, one of the six bands strikes up "Keep on rockin' me, baby," rattling windows and dental work blocks away. Slowly and unobtrusively, Director Forman's talent scouts circulate through the crowd...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Manhattan: Reliving the '60s | 5/22/1978 | See Source »

...been in reach of a newspaper over the past 15 years knows in broad outline the later-life stories of Jackie and Ari, the movie's only surprise is the attitude that it takes toward them. It is not sensational or lascivious; it is, strangely enough, rather sweet-spirited. The Greek Tycoon doesn't even have a good decadent party scene...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Yachts of Luck | 5/22/1978 | See Source »

...reduce these problems, very clean, low-sulfur "sweet" oil especially suitable for gasoline is still being imported from Indonesia in large quantities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Energy: Battling the West Coast Oil Glut | 5/15/1978 | See Source »

Competitive on track, Affirmed was sweet-tempered in the stables-a hot-running Thoroughbred with the manners of a house pet. He was the second betting choice in one of the best Derby fields in recent memory. Favorite Alydar was the kind of muscular late finisher that gives homestretch nightmares to rival trainers. Believe It had speed and was developing staying power. Sensitive Prince was a speed horse undefeated in six starts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Kid Becomes a Man | 5/15/1978 | See Source »

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