Word: sweets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ECCENTRIC woman of Brahmin origins, Olive has elevated suffragism to the level of a personal cult. Olive and Basil become enthralled by Verena, an earnest, sweet-looking, if not quite articulate enough character to make plausible her subsequent fame as an orator...
...finish after more than two hours of the first women's road test in the history of the Games. Then the U.S. pair broke out on the wings, and screeched practically side by side across the line. Even before coasting to a stop, they came together in a sweet embrace. After 49.2 miles, Carpenter-Phinney's edge over Twigg could be measured in centimeters, and blushing West German Sandra Schumacher, 17, seemed delighted with third. How fast was Carpenter-Phinney going at the end? She smiled. "Fast enough...
DIED. Fred Waring, 84, band and chorus leader known as "the man who taught America to sing," whose group, the Pennsylvanians, sustained its sweet, soothing blend of voices and instruments through more than six decades of road tours, radio, television and movie appearances and more than 2,000 recordings; after a stroke; in Danville, Pa. A Penn State engineering student who was rejected by the college glee club, he formed his first band (a jazz quartet) in 1917, eventually adding voices and more instruments. Between its 1933 debut and 1949, it presented one of radio's most popular shows...
Credit should also go to guitarist David Mcnair for his clear, ringing guitar playing (reminiscent of Peter Buck's guitar work for REM) and Stipe's prominent, graceful bass lines. Together, with Matthew Sweet's astute drumming, Stipe and Mcnair create a spare but rollicking sound that perfectly compliments the deceivingly playful tone of this...
...sick and had to go to the hospital. And I must admit that poor Miss Sri Lanka left early; she was so homesick. I missed Poland too, but oh how I wish you could have seen the wonderfully decadent Western luxuries bestowed on the new Miss Universe, a sweet 21-year-old nurse from Sweden named Yvonne Ryding. She started with breakfast in bed and will soon get all new clothes to go with her beautiful new mink, a car and a boat and so many other things I can't list them all. I wish it had been...