Word: sweets
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Caterpillars. Owen was born in sleepy Shropshire. His father was a railway engineer; his mother had a taste for culture. Shy, moody, frail, Owen began writing melancholy, softly sensuous verse in his teens, dealing generally with "golden gardens and sweet glooms." Since his family did not have the money to send him to college, he went to France as a tutor. While there, war broke out. Owen had no desire to get involved. He wrote his mother: "I feel my own life all the more precious and dear in the presence of this deflowering of Europe...
...FARMER QUARTET: INTERACTION (Atlantic). Flügelhorn, anyone? Ex-trumpeter Farmer is using the soft, sweet monster in his new quartet, and to further melt the sound, he has replaced the piano with a guitar (played by Jim Hall). The melodic lines in Embraceable You are several yards long and barely kept aloft by a faint little beat. An album for those who take their jazz with plenty of cream and sugar...
Born. To Ed Begley, 63, cinemactor who played a swamp-grass politician in Tennessee Williams' Sweet Bird of Youth, and Helen Jordan, 38, his third wife: a daughter; in Dublin...
...limestone cave beside the Sea of Galilee, not far from the spot where Jesus performed the miracle of the loaves and fishes, two giant hydraulic pumps hummed into action. The pumps sucked in the sweet water that flows into the sea from the Jordan River, pushed it through nine-foot conduits up an 845-ft. incline to the top of the Galilee Hills, then sent it coursing down an open spillway toward the central plains of Israel and the parched Negev Desert in the south. Thus last week Israel successfully completed the first full-scale test tapping in its critical...
...affluent life in the U.S. of the 1960s is also the sweet life, the fat life and the soft life-or so the top U.S. experts have decided. Last week they announced that if the average American male wants to stay lean and healthy, he should cut 300 calories out of his daily diet and his wife should cut 200 from hers...