Word: sweets
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pulls a wicked knife, slams the hood against a meathook, and threatens to make him look like a slab of Grade A Prime. A woman in pink slacks, straw hat and cowboy boots interrupts. "Peter, darling," she husks, "hold the knife this way. And make sure we see that sweet meathook...
Every syllable of her precious name-fat ten ha ma ma-was a treasure on the tongues of the moviegoers of Egypt. She was, by Egyptian description, "the Shirley Temple of Arabian movies"-a star since the age of seven and a radiant symbol of sweet, untouched Islamic puritanism. She was 20 and spoke no English. When she auditioned Omar in her east-side apartment high over the Nile, she said to him: "Do something...
...this state." And even as Scranton was taking the oath of office from State Supreme Court Chief Justice John C. Bell Jr., 70, who served 20 days as Governor in 1947, the problems of being Pennsylvania's chief executive were recalled by seven other ex-Governors. Their bitter sweet memories, as published in the Philadelphia Bulletin...
...Edward Brooke, 43, inauguration day was especially sweet. The only Republican among four Massachusetts state officers sworn in last week, he was also the first Negro to be elected attorney general...
Verses like this, which today would hardly cause a raised eyebrow were they to appear in the Sweet Briar College literary magazine, burst like a sinful star shell in the stodgy gloom of Victorian England. Mothers clutched their daughters. Fathers bethought themselves of horsewhips. Staid critics, resorting to apoplectic prose, apostrophized the author as the "libidinous laureate of a pack of satyrs." But a youthful public in London lapped up copies of Poems and Ballads when it came out in 1866, and Poet Algernon Charles Swinburne became famous and infamous almost overnight...