Word: sweets
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Square "nitespot," grew stronger and more comfortable. Some 400 people--holders of second-rank civil service offices, boisterous lady lawyers ("when Lawheeze is in, I think I'll ask her if I can be Police Commissioner"), and small-time real estate men--danced jigs, bought drinks, and ate too-sweet brownies. It was their night. Mrs. Hicks came in first, 13,000 ahead of the other nominee, Secretary of State Kevin H. White, and 20,000 ahead of state Rep. John W. Sears. In a phone-cluttered City Club office reached by crawling into a fireplace hearth, lifting a trapdoor...
...White's headquarters were marked by an exuberant but businesslike atmosphere. Returns from each precinct were carefully tabulated; charts showing the relative strength of each candidate in each important city district were being set-up and studied. There was no orchestra; there were no bars, no ham sandwiches, no sweet gerkin pickles, no chocolate cake for White's campaign workers--lawyers, teachers, students, high state officials...
...call up a friend there who happens to be a manager, the dulcet voice receptionist announces "I'll ring Mr.--'s line for you." Another sweet female voice answers, "Mr.--'s office." By this time you've stopped calling your friend by his first name and starting calling him "Mister...
...sightseers tramping its cluttered avenues, San Francisco's Chinatown has always displayed a pungent blend of yang and yin. Those intertwined opposites-good and evil, sweet and sour, light and dark-describe not only Chinese philosophy but also the inner contradictions of a district whose neon signs and tourist bustle mask a swarming, sweatshop world of long hours, low pay, hard work and fear. For all its outward ambiance, the largest Chinese enclave outside Asia is one of America's most wretched slums...
...Oscar deadline in December, because Director Rydell scents a best-actress nomination for Sandy. Her next film, in the can but not due for release until next summer, also has a somber-sounding scenario, suggesting that Dennis movies may soon see the last of the Radio City Music Hall. Sweet November is the name, and Sandy plays a dying girl who changes lovers every month...