Word: snugly
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...almost a century by its non-functioning heaters in the numbing winters, super-retention of heat in the sweltering summers, and the perennial disturbance of sirens emanating from the fire station across the street, the otherwise perfect concert hall was shunned not only by performing groups, but kept audiences snug in the coziness of their homes and dorms while marvelous concerts were played to near empty houses...
...play begins in bed as dawn lights up a snug hostelry called the Sea Shadows Inn. The time is 1951. Doris (Ellen Burstyn) and George (Charles Grodin), strangers less than 24 hours ago, have taken their first jittery plunge into adultery. He had aroused her libido the evening before by sending a steak over to her table...
...long lines at the gasoline stations are gone, and American homes will probably be warm and snug this winter. But high oil prices remain, and they threaten to knock the world off its axis. They greatly fuel the rocketing rate of inflation in most nations. They stunt economic growth almost everywhere. They compound balance of payment woes-Italy totters on the brink of bankruptcy-and thus threaten international trade, the lifeblood of an interdependent world...
...million sq. mi. of land, including mountains higher than Everest, volcanoes more powerful than Etna, chasms deeper than the Grand Canyon. By far the most pleasant scenery to man's eye-assuming anyone could survive in a world without water-would be the delicately terraced hills and snug valleys on the gently sloping continental shelves. The rest of the ocean floor would be mostly a vast wasteland of muddy ooze, as bleak in its way as the Sahara...
...sheds a desultory tear when Kit kills her father but becomes quickly absorbed in her relationship with her new, and first, boy friend. She draws a snug blanket of smarmy romanticism over everything. Hiding out in the countryside, Kit and Holly build a tree house and pretend they are pioneers. When they are discovered and Kit guns the intruders down, she watches it all as if he were bagging a couple of animals for supper...