Word: sweetness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...yellow skin, the time-tested Offy engine was laid on its side. In its unusual mount, the Offy not only ran cooler, it gave the car a sleek, slanted profile that rose only 22 inches off the track at the snout. It looked strange, but it was sweet to handle; the off-center weight of the tilted Offy made it cat-quick on the corners. Next year almost every other racer at Indianapolis will probably copy its style...
Smith began marketing borax in the East with the bland promise that "a thimbleful of borax" kept cream sweet, a borax shampoo cured "nervous headache...
...returned from defending dominion over palm and pine, or simply when the poor little street-bred people clustered around the bandstand at Brighton, Elgar's Pomp and Circumstance must ring out. Yet for all its imperial bombast, Elgar's best known composition also conveyed a sort of sweet innocence; compared to some of the marches it was soon to contend with-Communism's booming International or Nazi Germany's gutter hymn, the Horst Wessel Song-it lacked steel. It was really a recessional...
...bonuses, cheat on anything." The angry man is the University of Texas' Baseball Coach Bibb Falk, onetime Chicago White Sox outfielder; the objects of his rage are the major leagues, particularly the fast-talking scouts who circle the campuses and lure away the best college baseball players with sweet talk and bonuses. It not only hurts college baseball, argue Bibb and other college coaches, but also hurts the young men who are wooed away. For their reasons, see SPORT, Blame It on the Majors...
...David R. Sweet...