Word: sweeting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Sweet Lethe is my life...
...straight month. Meanwhile, the Labor Department announced revised figures showing a 5.8% rise during the April-June quarter in productivity in private non-farm sector jobs, which is vital to corporate profits and has been slipping for most of the past two years. Still, not all the signs are sweet, and in fact they are turning sour in one key area: the cost of the money that consumers and companies need to buy the goods and finance the building needed to create jobs and profits...
...Puritan Leader John Winthrop's ship neared the Massachusetts coast, "there came a smell offshore like the smell of a garden." The garden-like fragrance of herbs still hangs on the New England air, and with it the sweet smell of commercial success. Indeed, Americans' fascination with herbs-plants valued for specific medicinal, culinary or aromatic uses-has grown so fast in recent years that the demand for herb plants and seeds has wafted to every corner of the country. Dried and fresh herbs, used for millenniums in teas, elixirs, salves and perfumes to spice food and please...
...Life. Farewell, My Lovely (filmed once before in 1945 as Murder, My Sweet) is the caper in which Philip Marlowe gets mixed up with a huge bruiser named Moose Malloy. Moose is just out of jail and looking for his old girl friend Velma. Before she is run to ground, Marlowe works his way through L.A., low life to high society and back again, trailing in his wake subplots and an ever increasing number of corpses. This time around, Robert Mitchum stars as Marlowe. He is all wrong. For Chandler, Marlowe was a kind of rogue knight. Mitchum plays...
...home in Yorktown, responded to a ringing telephone. It was Sam. "Call my father; I've been kidnaped," he told Luis. The receiver was clicked off at Sam's end in less than a minute. "He sounded very sad, very nervous," recalled Luis. "Sam is a very sweet boy." Edgar Bronfman notified the FBI and the local police. They soon found Sam's car parked in the garage at his mother's house, the key still in the ignition. His mother was away on a cruise. Servants in a separate building reported hearing nothing unusual...