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Word: sweets (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...short hours we were home in the sweet U.S. of A. The only problem we had was at U.S. Customs, when Rutger and I were arrested and thrown in prison for possession of controlled substances...

Author: By Jeffrey J. Wise, | Title: Numero Uno | 10/29/1986 | See Source »

Grenouille doesn't just detect scents--he digests them, dissects them, and then preserves the essence of their individual components in the redolent storehouse of his mind. And whether smells are fresh and sweet or spoiled and foul, Grenouille devours them all with equal delight...

Author: By Lisa R. Eskow, | Title: The Sweet Smell of Perfume | 10/27/1986 | See Source »

...like sweet revenge...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Women Booters Tally Once, Tame Toothless Tigers | 10/27/1986 | See Source »

...split that Michael J. Fox pulled off in the climactic scene of Back to the Future? In the 1950s dawn of rock, rubber-legged Chuck Berry was the man who made music strut 'n' roll. And so when Berry, creator of hits like Maybelline, Johnny B. Goode and Sweet Little Sixteen, turned 60 last week, the pop establishment came out to pay tribute to the grand, gyrating old man. Through two celebratory concerts for 9,000 fans at the Fox Theater in St. Louis, Berry, in a rhinestone, mustard- colored shirt, slinked along, scissored his knees and thumped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Oct. 27, 1986 | 10/27/1986 | See Source »

When the cones are made--at least three or four times a day--the sweet scent lures would-be cone eaters into the Bow St. shop, adds scooper Maria Latzanakis...

Author: By Jennifer L. Mnookin, | Title: A New Twist to An Old Cone | 10/17/1986 | See Source »

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