Word: sweets
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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While Sigma 7 bobbed on the little waves of the sunlit Pacific, Schirra reported by radio that he was dry and comfortable and would prefer to be picked up while still in his own ship. "A sweet little bird," he remarked. Helicopters dropped frogmen into the water, and they attached inflatable tubes to keep Sigma 7 afloat. Then the Kcarsarge launched a whaleboat, which attached a line to the capsule. With Navy punctilio. Schirra formally asked the Kearsarge's captain for "permission to come aboard.'' "Permission granted." said Captain Eugene P. Rankin. After blowing the side hatch...
...Averell Harrimans. At the most exclusive dinner of all -in the White House family dining room -were the President and Jackie Kennedy; 78-year-old Mrs. Alice Roosevelt Longworth (as Teddy Roosevelt's daughter, her fondness for a certain shade of blue inspired In My Sweet Little Alice Blue Gown, a song far more enduring than any in Mr. President); Colombian Ambassador Carlos Sanz de Santamaria and his wife; and Artist William Walton...
...Tito has been steadily wooed closer to the Kremlin. Said Tito last week, passing lightly over the past, "This fog was never so thick that it hid what was underneath: namely, the deep sympathy that exists between the peoples of the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia." Brezhnev responded with equally sweet talk...
Without a word the man begins to water a patch of sweet-potato plants. Without a word the woman climbs down to the boat again, rows across to the mainland, trudges off to the spring, fills her pails with water, trudges back to the boat, rows across to the island, struggles up the path, climbs down to the boat...
...word the man and woman labor from dark to dark, from month to month in the long hot season to keep their fields alive. From sun to sun they sleep on a bed of rushes in a hut of reeds. In the autumn they harvest a few sacks of sweet potatoes. In the winter they rout stumps out of the hard land to increase their pitiful sum of soil. In the spring they reap the winter wheat and thresh it with a flail as old as agriculture. In the summer they climb down to the boat, row across...