Word: homeyness
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...laws that regulate unemployment compensation, hiring practices and labor-management relations to universities. At the same time, it has slashed their federal funding. These changes have made the University a more impersonal place, Steiner says. "It's unfortunate, but it's a recognizable fact. This place isn't as homey as it used to be." The workers evidently liked it better the way it used...
...jamboree's purpose was to "give the Union the homey touch." Thomas W. Flynn '81, an organizer of the event, said yesterday...
...military service as an infantry sergeant in Europe, New York University Law School, a moderately successful private practice. He first got into politics during the 1952 Stevenson campaign. Koch served as a street speaker then, and again four years later, developing a style that is more haimish-homey-than sophisticated or rousing. A Yiddish lilt flavors his speech, and a phrasemaker...
...summer. She had spent a few weeks in the mountains which added a healthy glow to her already striking features. She seemed to know exactly where she wanted to place all her photographs and little knick-knacks, and her side of the room rapidly took on a warm homey appearance. Adrian was a little less sure of where she wanted her things to go, partly because she felt that nothing she could ever do would make that cavernous hole, look any better. Adrian was very blonde and blue-eyed, with a more austere face than Louise's which often tended...
...hour of the taping that landed on the cutting-room floor covered unsuccessful efforts by the gentlemanly British interviewer to elicit some admission of responsibility and guilt. The final Nixon monologue that was shown was in fact the culmination of a long period of mounting tension on the homey seaside set in California, but this was not apparent to viewers. The buildup was lost and so, too, was the incongruous end of the session. When Nixon had finished his peroration, technicians rushed to shake his hand, congratulating him for getting such a burden off his chest. Frost solicitously walked...