Word: sweets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...White House July 30. Though the U.S. Olympic Committee went to pains to emphasize the importance of the Trials and call attention to a number of international events later this year for the qualifiers, most athletes agreed that an olive wreath by any other name does not smell as sweet. Said Al Oerter, 43, the discus thrower who won gold medals in the 1956, '60, '64, '68 Games and who was trying a comeback after twelve years of retirement: "This is not an Olympic Trials. I can tell because I've been sleeping. At past Trials...
...happy to entertain an audience, it had better be in the context of a story containing a liberal, humane moral. Somehow his roles -whether as investigative reporter or up-the-organization cowboy-suit him in his maturity, as they do not most other leading men, about whom the sweet odors of Bel Air and Rodeo Drive cling. There is something of the authentic knothead about Redford...
...manufacture of aluminum as well as the extraction of gold ?the two metals that respectively symbolize the modern and the primitive strengths of an economy. The Soviet Union's farms produce more barley, cotton fiber, wheat, oats and rye than those of any other country and?an incongruous sweet touch ?more sugar and honey. Huge petroleum reserves, second only to those of Saudi Arabia, have made the country self-sufficient in energy, although that could change by the middle of this decade because of the difficulty in finding and exploiting oil and gas in remote and inhospitable expanses...
...everyone from runaway heiresses to Viet Nam deserters, from one-handed cowboys to pregnant Indians. He is stirred to righteous anger only when a bad guy mauls his best gal or breaks a little boy's piggy bank. He is too good to be true-except in a sweet-souled dime-novel movie like this here...
...toiletries. Even conservative Chesebrough-Ponds, virtually the Sears, Roebuck of the cold cream world, is emphasizing rugged outdoor men in its commercials for hand lotions. The Coty company, which for years has offered Musk For Men cologne, is preparing to launch another entry into the sweet-smelling sweepstakes, Mark...