Word: sweeting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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WHILE trying to figure out the Hite Report the other day, I ran smack into an old friend of mine from high school. Cheryl Stern seemed to my bulged eyes a new woman When last I had admired her comely self she had been a sweet kid in puffy sleeves with pastel flannel figures of Babar the Elephant and his wife Celeste sewn on as a running motif across the apron of her party dress. Now, svelte and shiny in her silk fishnet dress with a fishnet choker and fishnet stockings, she was quite a different item. She looked like...
...croak, I begged Cheryl to read me the sports page of the New York Post. "please, my sweet. Just five minutes of Maury Allen...
...ended what had come to be known as "the Big One," the cruise that Buckley had dreamed of for years. He has spent much of his life in or around boats. His first, in 1939, was a 17-ft. Barracuda-class named Sweet Isolation, in honor of his father's political views. Much later there were ocean-going yachts bearing such names as The Panic (in honor of the Great Depression?) and Suzy Wong (in honor of the world's oldest laissez-faire enterprise?). Cyrano, in fact, might have been named Loophole. Buckley charters the boat for much...
Like a play within a play, any production of this work turns on the final understanding between Petruchio and his tamed shrew. She may finish by agreeing with her husband that a woman's duty is to be a "most patient, sweet, and virtuous wife." Call this a medieval Kate. Or, having been frozen, starved and exhausted by her dauntless husband, she may cry out like a trapped and beaten Kate. In recent years she has been played as an ironic Kate, addressing her last speech, on the submission of wives, directly to the audience as a private joke...
With the Crimson effectively controlling the tempo of play up and down the court, coach Satch Sanders called his charges' first win "a sweet victory...