Word: sweets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sweet revenge for K.C. After losing in the playoffs to New York in 1976, '77,' and '78, Kansas City will finally head to the World Series...
...military rule. Beyond the purely commemorative reasons for rejoicing, Nigerians can revel in their emergence as black Africa's richest and most powerful nation-and a rising economic force on the world scene. With daily shipments to the U.S. of nearly 1 million bbl. of low-sulfur "sweet" crude oil, Nigeria ranks as the U.S. 's second largest supplier of foreign petroleum (after Saudi Arabia). Nigeria's staggering trade surplus with the U.S. this year is expected to top $11 billion-possibly more than that of any other nation. This week Nigerian President Alhaji Shehu Shagari will...
...when a nurse enters the room, the way his voice rises and falls in the fruity arpeggios of a Covent Garden tenor. Treves described Merrick as having "the brain of a man, the fancies of a youth and the imagination of a child," and Hurt inhabits this sweet-souled ogre with the Elphant Man's own grace and spirit. Perhaps Hurt's delicacy was contagious: Anthony Hopkins, who has been known to dine on the scenery, gives a scrupulously restrained peformance as Treves. Only Freddy Jones, one of Britain's great bad actors, hams...
That rope was real tight. Is there a God? Existentialists and fundamentalists alike, on that sweet and sticky afternoon, faced themselves and their makers as play continued. It could not go wrong now. Or could it? It always had. Could the Islanders stand success? Could their fans...
Last spring, city officials were talking sweet--"we hope the University will demonstrate its civic mindedness"; "We can only pray Harvard will be a good neighbor...