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Word: sweets (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sweet, unscheduled interlude...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Mar. 3, 1961 | 3/3/1961 | See Source »

...This Guy?" It was no surprise that Bui's reputation was known to Jacqueline Kennedy, who loves French cooking. But the story that the First Lady had been guilty of the unpardonable impropriety of trying to lure him away from the ambassador was as shocking as serving a sweet white wine with pink filet mignon. From London the cables buzzed with a story that Letitia Baldrige, Jackie's social secretary, had telephoned Bui one midnight last week and, in liquid French, offered him a substantial raise in pay to come to Washington and cook for the President. After...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The White House: Someone's in the Kitchen | 3/3/1961 | See Source »

...Lynchburg, Va.. girls from all-white Sweet Briar women's college picketed drugstores with segregated lunch counters, as six other white and Negro students, including two white girls from similarly fashionable Randolph Macon, began the second week of 30-day trespassing sentences for earlier sit-ins at the counters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The South: To the Jails | 2/24/1961 | See Source »

...victims of the group's needlework; Lucille Ball ("Nothing she wears makes sense, blends or complements''), Anna Magnani ("Gives the impression of someone playing Macbeth in tramp clothing"), Anita Ekberg ("A 39-in. bust wearing a size 12 dress"), Millie Perkins ("A very dear and sweet person but much too honest in her refusal to correct nature's mistakes"), Shelley Winters ("Her style sense is totally unrelated to anything living or dead") and Brigitte Bardot ("It is difficult to associate Mlle. Bardot with any type of clothing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Feb. 24, 1961 | 2/24/1961 | See Source »

Calcutta (Lawrence Welk and Orchestra; Dot). That old peddler of "Champagne Music"-better known in the trade as "sweet and moanin'," "holy chorus" or "sweet corn"-fields his first big hit single. With no lyrics or melody of any distinction, Welk's harpsichord-accordion arrangement has a slogging beat that apparently sets the jukebox crowd vibrating. The jocks have even taken to calling Bandsman Welk "Larry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Pop Records | 2/24/1961 | See Source »

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