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Word: sweetnesses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Spud Murphy's, Salisbury's newest nightclub, young white Rhodesian soldiers lurched onto the dance floor last week and joined in a beery war dance to a current hit song, Sweet Banana. The song is a tribute to troopies like themselves "who fight with bravery-and win." A white businessman, surveying the scene, remarked, "Right now the only black man who could survive in this place would have to be at least a sergeant major -with a citation for valor in the Rhodesian army." A few miles away, in the black township of Harari, a well-known black...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RHODESIA: Scratching the Surface | 8/21/1978 | See Source »

...every saloon on this ride." Alas, for the pride of the Doyles, Pat crashed his bike on the fourth day in Iowa Falls, all those saloons and 250 miles from the last watering hole in Clinton. For those who made it from river to river, surviving the buttered corn, sweet rolls, doughnuts, lemonade, watermelon, apples, popcorn, homemade cookies, eggs-any-style, pork-burgers, wienies and pancakes, it was a nice way to make friends, stretch undiscovered muscles and, as Tour Director Don Benson put it, "eat your way across Iowa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: The Iowa Bikeathon | 8/14/1978 | See Source »

Exeter Theater--Exeter St.--Cat and Mouse, 12, 2, 4, 6, 8, 10. Friday and Saturday midnight show--The Rocky Horror Picture Show. Gary Theater--131 Stuart St.--Alice, Sweet Alice...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FILM | 8/11/1978 | See Source »

...incentive: an extra day's pay at the end of every month to workers who are punctual. Reichhold Chemicals' fiberglass manufacturing division in Irwindale, Calif, offers half an hour's extra pay for each week a worker completes a full shift without illness or absence. The bonuses are called "sweet pay" (for Stay at Work, Earn Extra...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Well Pay | 8/7/1978 | See Source »

...Italian and French jazz lovers. With that, Count Basie, 73, the grand old master of keyboard swing, stepped up to a piano placed smack on the Franco-Italian borderline on the Pont St. Ludovic, and with his band launched a medley of such crowd pleasers as Sweet Georgia Brown and Freckle Face. Meanwhile traffic was blocked on both the Italian and French sides of the bridge, and a cacophony of auto horns accompanied the Count. "I've played outdoors before but never like this," said he. "I've never closed a frontier before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Aug. 7, 1978 | 8/7/1978 | See Source »

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