Word: sweetness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...only a town clerk, but he knows what he wants-an Aston-Martin sports car, a villa in Cannes, and a girl who will look just right in either. When the daughter of the local industrial tycoon pops the question, "Joe, do you really love me?" Joe coos back sweet nothings in the shape of five zeros: "A hundred thousand pounds' worth." Room at the Top suggests for the first time that the Welfare State can be used as a runway for a take-off into the upper economic air by a young man who is not too finicky...
Irving J. Levine, tight-lipped president of K & L Beverage Co., told how he and Beck sweet-talked St. Louis' Anheuser-Busch into giving Levine's company the sole distributorship of Budweiser in Seattle, and later in other areas of Beck's domain of Washington and Alaska. Then, said Levine, Dave Beck Jr. and a partner each put up $24,500 for a total of 49% interest in K & L, and Dave Jr. became vice president of the company. Two years later, Mrs. Dave Beck Sr. paid Levine $40,000 for a 40% interest...
...airtight plastic envelope, it smells like raw shrimp, and its color is about the same. When one of these brittle ghosts is dropped into tepid water, it softens quickly and swells a little. After half an hour of soaking and two minutes in boiling water, the shrimp is firm, sweet and tastes like a shrimp that has been carefully preserved by freezing...
Nick Lamont led the Crimson scoring, picking up four goals and one assist. Captain Phil Hunder followed, with three goals and six assists. Bob Dakin and John Righter got one tally and one assist each and Dave Sweet, John Gould, Dave Thompson, and Tom Plaut each scored once...
Taking place about ten years after Long Day's Journey into Night, A Moon reintroduces the hard-drinking older O'Neill brother, James Tyrone Jr. Jim Tyrone is by now a wholly dissipated, used-up drunk, his last reserves gone with the death of his mother. The sweet, healthy, hulking daughter of an Irish tenant farmer, a virgin who pretends to be a wanton, has long been wildly in love with Jim. The two come together alone one night, but beyond a quickly aborted impulse of drunken lust in Jim, nothing happens. Partly from knowing he must spoil...