Word: warm
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Secretary Bernard Shanley: "Those are comfort stations, not buses, Mr. President." Ike whipped his glasses out of his breast pocket for a look, gasped: "Oh, for goodness' sake." At 4:30 p.m. he took his seat on the platform and the program began. First major speech was a warm-up by Len Hall, then the speech that Ike had been waiting for. Author: Dick Nixon. He did not believe in answering personal attacks on the President, said Nixon, but when the Administration's accomplishments are misrepresented or distorted, "it is our responsibility to set the record straight." Examples...
...warm glow of the freedom of Brown was not to last, and would never be recaptured. "The parting from old Brown was a sorrowful duty," wrote Johnny Rock. "All the fellows wore long faces, and words were few but earnest." Now he turned to another struggle of another kind. "It had been understood from the beginning," he said, "that I would enter my father's office...
Long on Deeds. At first sight the Old Man in The Eyrie seems an improbable sort of American hero and historymaker, maneuvering about the island with his sets of blueprints and his inevitable 4-ft. rule. He is a middling-sized man with even features, warm and straightforward eyes. He is aloof to the point of inaccessibility; he is shy to the point of pain, finding it almost agonizing to call even his closest friends by their first names. "I don't see how you do it," he said one day when two old friends were first-naming each...
...Madame Nordica, If Possible." On his 21st birthday J.D.R. Jr. got a gift of $21 from his father, a warm note about "your promise and . . . the confidence your life inspires." But now for the first time in his life J.D.R. Jr. was already beginning to explore the meanings of warmer words than confidence. Awkwardly, at the age of 20, he had learned how to dance. "I made up my mind that I had to conquer my shyness. I had to get a measure of social ease," he wrote home to his mother, who frowned on dancing. He began calling upon...
After 8000 B.C.. the climate grew steadily warmer, melting the remnants of ice. Warmth-demanding plants (e.g., oak, elm and alder) invaded the Britannic Peninsula. New animals and new tribes of men trooped across the marshes. The climate was probably almost as warm as today. "A bit chillier," hazards Dr. Godwin...