Word: sweets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...This is really sweet," Tim Smith said...
Daniel Steiner '54, Bok's trusted aid and dance instructor, stood adjacent to the president throughout the conference, whispering sweet nothings in his ear and sneaking large-denomination bills out of Bok's suit pocket...
...Gross, to whom Walton sent sweet backdoor passes, is retired. Maurice Lucas, with whom Walton teamed to snag rebounds, hit a 60-ft. shot at the buzzer the night before last for the L.A. Lakers. And Dave Twardzik, to whom Walton would throw his perfect outlet passes, is working in the Blazers' office after a stint as the color commentator for the team's radio broadcasts...
Although the inevitability of Beatrice-Joanna's psychological paralysis is meant to move us, it doesn't because the gruff and ready D'Aquila hasn't accumulated any sweet-maidenhood points. We don't care that she makes love to a man she hates in order to obviate marrying another man she scorns (and all for the sake of a third man whom she loves but deceives). We like her so little we find it hard to view her tragic demise as anything but deserving comeuppance...
Imagine a similar case in which the Diet Candy Company begins marketing a new, super-sweet, sugar-free candy bar that has only one calorie per bar. Two years later the company discovers that the candy bar causes nose cancer in Caucasian men. If Diet announces its discovery, it will lose almost half of its market; so the company conceals this information about its product. Caucasian men are freely choosing to eat Diet candy bars, but they are not freely choosing to eat a nasal carcinogen...