Word: affectionateness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Scrubbed & Sterilized. But throughout the Commonwealth, Elizabeth's baby (whose name will not be decided upon until just before his baptism) was welcomed with warmth and affection rather than official pomp and circumstance.
Mark of Affection. In Long Beach, Calif., Seaman Rudolphus Hill refused to prosecute the jealous lady friend who had laid his scalp open with a beer bottle: he was "happy to know I affect women that way."
That Washington visit was a landmark in Nicaraguan history. It helped take away much of the bitter feeling left over from dollar diplomacy days. It cemented Tacho's affection and admiration for the U.S. Throughout World War II, the U.S. had no stauncher friend than Somoza's Nicaragua...
Maldarelli looks like a chunky businessman, mild and bespectacled. The respectful attention he gets from art critics seems to mean less to him than the affection of his students, who call him "Mai." Wearing a hat made of newspaper to keep the chips out of his hair, he lets them...
The mission to Moscow and the gift of the hat were, in their differing ways, typical of both the confidence and the affection that Hopkins commanded from the world's most powerful leaders during World War II. Roosevelt created him, then leaned on him. Churchill sized him up and...