Word: sweets
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...remember sweet Betsy...
Then, toasting the U.S. with a glass of sweet Georgian wine, he turned to U.S. Ambassador Foy Kohler, standing 15 feet away. "If we don't love each other," he said affably, "then that's a question of taste. If we don't embrace, we can at least shake hands, because if we should clash, the others will not go unscathed...
...Moscow, after weeks of stalling, finally agreed to sell India MIG jet fighters, which might be used against invading Red Chinese troops. A Pravda editorial on Peking's border war with India carefully refused to take sides: if anything, Pravda leaned slightly toward India. "Bellicosity," tut-tutted the sweet voice of Moscow, is "foreign to the very spirit of a socialist state...
...brilliant and ringing at the top; she impressed her audience with an absolute control that permitted her to fade from full voice to soft-spun pianissimi that hushed the hall to admiring silence. If her attitudes sometimes seemed stagy, she was completely natural and quietly moving in Deep River, Sweet Little Jesus Boy, Stand...
Trying to imagine the Strindberg who wrote The Ghost Sonata, I think of a devoted Nietzschean suddenly confronted by a sweet little girl holding a lollipop and an affectionate puppydog. For an unguarded moment he is charmed; but the girl goes her way, and the play-wright reflects that perhaps the candy only reveals her materialism, and the dog her slavish dependence on pets. He becomes hopelessly despairing, then immeasurably compassionate. He writes a poem...