Word: snugly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cold-shoulder the stranger who threatens their peace of mind. Harding defends himself by putting a steely armor on and letting his heart freeze up. By war's end, Harding has surrendered because he no longer believes that creative man can ever win. He settles tamely into a snug U.S. professorship. "The Faculty had no idea that it was a glacial shell of a man who had come to live among them, mainly because they were themselves unfilled with anything more than a little academic stuffing...
Louis stuck Ham for almost six years, then walked out, disguised as a carpenter with a plank on his shoulder, and was snug in Britain by next...
...thus be jailed at the wronged woman's discretion, and last week she was. Willingly, the first Mrs. Fergerson paid the jail fees for incarcerating the second: $1 admission and $3.50 weekly. "This whole thing is silly," wailed Alma, who can be kept in jail for six months. Snug at home, the former Mrs. Fergerson trilled gaily: "I honestly don't know if I'll keep her there for six months. I've been through a lot, but I can still laugh. Give her my love...
...built on the same principle. Their winter entrances slant upward, emerging through the floor. Air warmed by human bodies cannot escape, so it collects cozily under the thick, domed roof. Even when Arctic blizzards are blowing overhead, the body-heated igloo often keeps so warm that the Eskimos snug inside need wear no clothes...
...striped pants ("too long and tight") or the frock coat ("sleeves . . . too short") which he had borrowed from his pals. As for his "battlefield," this, too. was the property of friends: it was they who had made the historic "March on Rome" the preceding day, while Leader Mussolini stayed snug in the office of his Socialist newspaper, Il Popolo d'ltalia, under protection of the Milan police...