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Word: sweets (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...house guest at Balmoral Castle in September, a pretty girl with an almost pre-Raphaelite air of sweet naturalness, sitting demurely by the River Dee, while Prince Charles fished for salmon. In October, swathed in a sporty green coat and boots, she cheered excitedly from the Ludlow racecourse grandstand as the Prince rode his Irish chaser, Allibar, to a second-place finish in a three-mile steeplechase. By the time the Prince of Wales' 32nd birthday arrived on Nov. 14, Britain was rife with rumors that Charles' engagement to the sunny blond so often at his side, Lady...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRITAIN: The Sport of Charlie Watching | 12/1/1980 | See Source »

...matter how they voted, seem to be walking with that little bounce in the spirit that comes when an ordeal is over, a decision finally made. The evening hour, for example, seems unaccountably more pleasant; the reason may be that political advertising has abruptly vanished from television-a sweet, almost subliminal improvement in the moral atmosphere. No more candidates hagiographically displayed, saints mixing radiantly with the adoring throng; no more of those sarcastic prosecutorial voice-overs about the other guy, the pitchman's tone as low and urgent and insinuating as a whisper of Cassius...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: Stop the Endless Campaign, Please | 12/1/1980 | See Source »

...Wright leaves, Hartman settles down in his second-floor dressing room to read background material, stopping now and then to sip coffee and take a bite or two of a bagel. To keep everyone awake, ABC has placed coffee urns, cartons of orange juice and plates of bagels and sweet rolls at convenient spots throughout the building...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Life Begins at 3:45 A.M. | 12/1/1980 | See Source »

...season neared, Lorimar announced that Mary Crosby, who plays Kristin, would appear only in the first five episodes. "My part was up," she gallantly deadpanned early last week. "They need new people." In fact, Kristin was always the ideal perpetrator. As Sue Ellen's sweet sister and J.R.'s conniving mistress, she was in the family but not of it; her purging from Dallas would set off enough shock waves to surprise the unwary viewer without destroying the basic family unit. Moreover, Kristin had both motives and nerve for the deed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Now It Can Be Told: Shedunit | 12/1/1980 | See Source »

...Dean Moses really is so sweet. I expected him to be a cold administrator but he's not at all," one Thayer resident gushes...

Author: By Paul M. Barrett and Suzanne R. Spring, S | Title: Musings From the Mouths of Babes | 11/26/1980 | See Source »

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