Word: homeyness
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Tommy's Mexican Restaurant is a homey little joint with red vinyl booths and murals of Mayan ruins. Papa Thomas Bermejo greets customers, while daughter Candy punches the cash register and son Julio presides behind the bar. The roar of ice crushers blends with mariachi brass. The waitress, in a worn T shirt, scuttles about at 78 R.P.M., hoisting platters of sizzling enchiladas...
...Over the years we’ve been looking for ways to make Mather feel more homey,” Hafrey said. “Mather from an architecturally standpoint is not always the most welcoming place to live...
...global lexicon in the 1980s as Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev proclaimed a new glasnost (openness) in Soviet society and began implementing perestroika (restructuring) in its economy and politics. He sought a more conciliatory relationship with the U.S., negotiating arms reductions. With a Western-style politician's charm and homey touch, he became, as TIME put it, "a symbol of hope for a new kind of Soviet Union: more open, more concerned with the welfare of its citizens and less with the spread of its ideology and system abroad." What did spread, at home and abroad, was a fever of democratic...
...mission is to spread Islam and, as he sees it, America and Israel are the two greatest obstacles to its resurgence. Khan is wealthy by Pakistani standards, but his house is austere; there are no pictures on the wall or homey flourishes. His one vanity, if you could call it that, is his gun collection from the Afghan war, trophies he took off dead Russians. Khan fought in the Al-Badr battalion, made up primarily of Arabs who took the jihad - or holy war - back with them to Algeria, Egypt and Sudan. Their experiences in the Afghan conflict color...
...dining hall was renovated using a template created by Harvard University Dining Services (HUDS) meant to modernize the services while giving the dining halls a more homey feel. The three Quad dining halls—Pforzheimer, Cabot and Currier—will be renovated simultaneously next summer, according to Alix McNitt, the HUDS assistant director of marketing and communications...