sweetness; sugary taste; sweets; dessert; cake
delicious; tasty; sweet; attractive; appealing; convenient
sweetness; sugary taste; sweets; dessert; charm; appeal
rebuilding; reconstruction; rehabilitation; protoform reconstruction
nightless gay quarters; nightless city
blackout (to prevent being seen by enemy aircraft during a nighttime air raid)
light; illumination; ray; happiness; hope; influence
day and night; around the clock
government official; clerk
to come to the point; to get straight to the point; to speak frankly; to speak plainly; to talk straight
to get tired of (doing); to lose interest in
shadow or cloud (e.g. on someone's happiness); shade; gloom
embezzlement; misappropriation; usurpation
decomposition; putrefaction; putrescence; corruption; degeneracy; decay
dull sound; muffled sound
case worker; case officer
room; chamber; apartment; flat; stable
offender; transgressor; violator
exposing; unmasking; laying bare
grim; stern; stark; heartless
sentence; verdict; pronouncement
to take someone (to some place); to take someone along; to lead someone away
work-to-rule; go-slow strike; slowdown; being idle; slackening; being truant
to walk someone off (e.g. to the police station)
protest; refutation; pleading
flatly rejecting; curtly refusing; beating easily; defeating handily; a kick
inspection (for compliance); investigation (tax, etc.)
examiner; investigator; inquisitor; agent
bribe; sweetener; douceur
report; return (e.g. tax); statement; declaration; notification; filing
acquisition (esp. corporate); buy-out; takeover; bribery; buying off; corruption
skip it; drop it; I've had enough (e.g. when offered something); that's enough
moment by moment; hour by hour
punishing a crime to make an example for others
to apply the art of resuscitation (in judo, etc.); to breathe life into; to stimulate; to encourage someone
in a sense; in some way; to an extent
bulletproof; protection (or charm) against bullets
simmer; bubble out; flow out
to boil up; to come to the boil; to arise; to break out; to get excited; to be in uproar
John Bull; prototypical Englishman