Word: sweetness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sweet the name of Jesus sounds...
...flooded houses, World War II Quonset huts were hurled into paddies and wrapped around telegraph poles. Thirty-five hours later, Okinawans found 7,000 homes and 80 public buildings totally destroyed, 27 fishing boats wrecked. Gone was 40% of the island's precious rice crop, 80% of the sweet-potato crop, and 60% of the sugar cane. Estimated damage to U.S. military installations: $10 million...
...mirrored salon in the ornate Hotel Matignon, official residence of France's Premiers, mild-mannered Socialist Guy Mollet last week cried out to his countrymen: "I ask every Frenchman to do his duty, to subscribe for Algeria and for France!" In these heroic words Premier Mollet imposed a sweet wartime sacrifice on France's citizens-the moral ob ligation to do a good piece of business at government expense...
...Gertrude Stem's In a Garden, with music by Manhattan's Meyer Kupferman, a Steinishly childlike spoof on royalty that was the success of the evening. ("Redolent, that's the word for the music," approved one Edinburgh matron. "It was the essence of nostalgia.") Next came Sweet Betsy from Pike, by Manhattan's Mark Bucci, a horsy mock-western. The bill closed with The Pot of Fat, by Massachusetts' Theodore Chanler, a Grimm parable about a cat and mouse who married and then found out about their incompatibilities. The crowd clapped the company...
...those too-innocent-for-comfort ditties called Mama, Teach Me to Dance. She has also accumulated three years of experience on Steve Allen's Tonight. As she sings, her rather long face looks vaguely troubled, and a slight, pathetic wave ruffles her smooth voice. In sweet songs, she sounds reedy and controlled. When she lets go, she squeezes her eyes in a kind of happy passion, and bounces discreetly, until the crowd thinks it knows just what she means...