Word: sweets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...shirt, Gorbachev ushered the interviewers into a large, spare third-floor office lined with cream-colored silk wall coverings. On the walls hung portraits of Marx and Lenin. The center of action was a table flanked by 18 chairs, covered with green baize and amply supplied with plates of sweet pirozhki (bite-size pastries), mineral water, lemon soda and cut- glass vases filled with colored pencils. Extensively briefed by his aides, Gorbachev had brought along typewritten notes ruled in red, blue and green. He also brought an expert: seated next to him was Georgi Arbatov, Moscow's best- known Americanologist...
...words provoked a nationwide furor, but Falwell persevered at a follow-up press conference in Washington and then on a series of TV shows. Through it all, the trademark Falwell manner was on public display: the presentation of disputatious and highly debatable assertions in tones of sweet reason, congeniality in the face of bitter attacks, an almost eerie confidence that he possessed insights his countrymen needed to hear about...
Unity, the fourth sister, went further than Diana to justify the remark of an old family friend: "You Mitfords like dictators." She held hands with Hitler, whom she described as "sweet" as well as "the greatest man of all time." Diana spent nearly 3 1/2 years in prison during World War II for her romance with fascism. Unity shot and grievously wounded herself when her beloved England went to war with her beloved Germany...
Sethness is universally praised for his breadth of knowledge about finances, and for his judgment powers. "He is an extraordinary people managers, a man of incomparable integrity, a man of perceptiveness and sensitivity," said Ann Sweet '57, director of alumni relations at the B-School. "He'll be very much missed as a human and as a boss...
After all, who would be stupid enough to put out a sweeter Coke after just finishing an ad campaign that said Coke was less sweet than Pepsi? And who would be stupid enough to change Coke one year before its 100th anniversary, thereby passing up an unprecedented advertising blitz for Coke's centennial? And who would be dumb enough to switch to a formula that only six out of 10 preferred to an American tradition...