Word: snugly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...talk all across the nation. Just at the time when the Administration was trying to get appropriations out of Congress, the cold front clashed with the warm winds of modern Republicanism. Principal orphans of the storm were the Eisenhower Republicans in Cabinet, House and Senate. The principal happy onlookers, snug and comfortable in Taftite redoubts, were G.O.P. conservatives of the stripe of California's William Fife Knowland and New Hampshire's Styles Bridges, whose case had been better sold by Humphrey than ever before...
...town queer woman, Elizabeth Minerva Stretch. She is a monstrous frump, always trundling a baby carriage full of junk and dubbed-for some shadowy peccadillo of the past-"Chip Canary." In a moment of adolescent bravado Jason yells out this taboo nickname, then breaks and runs. That night, snug in bed, Jason smiles as he hears his father say to his mother: "He's big enough, now, to take care of himself. Whatever he does it's his own fault...
...return to the hopelessness of the burned-out ruins of Tokyo or to start a new life as pioneers on the far northern island of Hokkaido. Government posters showed Hokkaido's inviting green landscapes, its fat dairy herds, its red brick silos and its snug, warm farmhouses. Along with some 190,000 other Japanese families, the Gotos seized the opportunity...
...wanted a house large enough for herself and her three children that would make the best possible use of her rocky hillside site with its sweeping view of Lake Superior. The site problems were made to order for Breuer, who feels the hillside house can ideally combine both the snug, down-to-earth feeling, where the building is anchored to the upper slope, with a soaring, cantilevered view out over the landscape. Because his client planned to do her own cooking and housework, liked to entertain frequently, he laid out the house area in well-defined zones, separating the sleeping...
...into English as "demythologization." This, says Bultmann, is what the New Testament needs if it is to mean anything real to laymen of today. For to modern man, he argues, the world of the Gospels seems as different from our world as Mars. The New Testament universe is a snug house with hell in the cellar and heaven upstairs. Angels from above and demons from below are constantly busy on the ground floor, and the end of everything is momentarily expected, with the graves giving up their dead for judgment and the Messiah streaming clouds of glory...