Word: sweets
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Gone: The Short-Skirt Bit. The old apple has to be polished a little more discreetly than it once was. The sweet Southern thing who sighs, "Ah'll do anything to get a good grade," is now likely to be told: "Try studying." Symbolic of the times, a Michigan State professor last year ruined the short-skirt bit by ordering all coeds to the back of the room. "I don't let myself get close to any student," says a grim Houston professor. "I try to look at all of them as enemies...
...were in their places to hear Sir John conduct a sparkling Cockaigne Overture, a disappointing Death and Transfiguration, a warm and distinguished Beethoven Seventh. Sir John's greying mane shook in a fury of excitement at every climax. Over his leprechaun's face passed fleeting expressions of sweet affection, wistful pleading and stout, unfailing pride, rather like Lord Nelson...
...country at large, Home's blunt, hardheaded performance as Foreign Secretary has won him a degree of respect accorded to only one of his postwar predecessors, Labor's late Ernie Bevin. Remembering Churchill's innocence of economics and social problems, many politicians believed that Home-Sweet-Home, as Winston called him, could easily fill the same gaps in his experience...
Stiff and stony-faced, der Alte wasted no time on Wehmut, the sweet melancholy that Germans usually lavish on such occasions. Instead, he launched into a withering attack on President Kennedy's proposal to sell wheat to Russia, calling it a fickle expedient that was inconsistent with Washington's demand last winter that West German in dustrialists cancel a deal to sell pipeline to Moscow. Demanding that the entire subject of East-West trade be reviewed by the NATO Council, Adenauer insisted that the wheat would ultimately help the Russians fight the West, and he echoed a crack...
...Level sweet Level was thought a crime. William Blake