Word: sweets
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...notoriously overoptimistic in estimating the size of budget deficits. Missouri's Cannon complained on the floor of the House that over the past nine years the Administration budgetmakers have underestimated the red ink by a net total of $37.5 billion. "They were feasting on the delights of sweet anticipation," growled Cannon. "But now we are gnawing on the cold corncob of stern reality." For example, only a year ago Kennedy submitted a 1963 budget indicating a surplus of $500 million; that wishful bit of black ink has since changed into a massive blotch of red, currently estimated...
...achieve in his films a characteristic sense of the toughness and bitterness of Britain's working class, he prefers to shoot in a street or a tenement rather than a studio. He understands actors and how to use them. "Actors are the most civilized, sweet, and well-behaved race of people in the world," he says. "They have an extraordinary emotional ruthlessness too. It's terribly difficult to know where the center of an actor is. They don't quite know who they are. They want to be villain, hero, king and slob all at the same...
...scent of youthful bitterness suffuses the sarcastic prose bouquet with which Willingham opens the novel: "In this peaceful land . . . the summer sun is a fiery furnace; it boils the blood, cooks the brain, and spreads a fever in the bones. But that same fearful orb, in collaboration with the sweet rain generated by its power, makes the little flowers grow...
...well. Bill Morris alone was slightly off form, losing to Princeton's number one, Frank Satterthwaite, whom he had dispatched 3-0 last year. Robinson handled Satterthwaite very nicely, though, retrieving easily the straight drops that had fooled Morris. For Robinson, victory over the Princeton man was especially sweet. The two have competed in close competition for six years, and, until this match, Satterthwaite appeared to have gained final superiority...
...most clearly is not the blushing ambassador. He is the young maestro who was called "Little Lorin" for so many years that he now insists on "Mr. Maazel.'' the austere young genius who in his zeal to become a man sometimes cannot still Little Lorin's sweet, boastful voice...