Word: sweets
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Crops & Trees. Lacking sufficient data, the scientists did not discuss anti-crop spraying, which accounts for 13% of the herbicides used in Viet Nam. Aerial spraying has destroyed crops of sweet potatoes, rice, sugar cane and vegetables used by enemy troops in South Viet Nam, and drifting defoliants have accidently destroyed rubber trees, sugar and tomato plants in friendly territory. But there is no indication that sub sequent crops on the same land are affected by the chemical dousing...
This may or may not be true, but the atmosphere that morning--first in the Colloquium room and then in all but one of the five trustee-administration-student discussion groups--was sweet reason and affability. The conference was programmed as a discussion of the "inconsistencies" the Radcliffe College Council detected in the RUS constitution, but very little time was actually spent in going over specific clauses. The meeting was rather an opportunity for each side to present his case, and more important, for each to convince the other of his own reasonableness and openmindedness...
...Sweet November is a little love sto ry that should be fey, funny, touching and bittersweet. Instead it is foolish, lugubrious, sloppy and saccharine. Flashing her little half-smiles in all directions, Sandy is supposed to be a delicious young thing who picks up men and takes them home to share her bed for a month at a time in order to alleviate their hang-ups, or whatever. Anthony Newley is supposed to be an upright box manufacturer who becomes Mr. November...
...Just sweet sixteen, and now you're gone...
...Pianist Teddy Wilson, Trombonist Red Ballard-were tied up elsewhere, but 14 of the original 26 made it, including Drummer Gene Krupa, Vibraphonist Lionel Hampton, Pianist Jess Stacy and Singer Martha Tilton. Goodman, now 58, fed them all a buffet supper, and then they sat down to blow Avalon, Sweet Lorraine, Stompin' at the Savoy. As they used to say back then-swingin...