Word: warm
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Even beyond the shores of the U.S. the picture was brighter. There were clear indications that Communism is in deep trouble. But while the U.S. basked under a warm sun and enjoyed its moratorium on nagging worry, there were reminders that summer and its mood are never eternal. Neutralism continued on the upswing among nervous nations. As a result, the unity and strength of the Western world, and particularly of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, were in danger. In the Middle East, the quiet was temporary and could easily be shattered...
Prescription: Rest. Two hours and 85 miles later, the Chrysler pulled up at the Eisenhower farm at Gettysburg, Pa., to be greeted by Mamie's mother, Mrs. Elivera Doud. The farm looked sunny, warm, restful. Wild roses, day lilies and hollyhocks were abloom; the corn was knee-high. Tired from the trip, Ike lay down to rest in his oak-paneled, first-floor den. In a short while the Eisenhowers and their weekend guests, Walter Reed Hospital Commander Major General Leonard Heaton (who performed the ileitis operation) and Mrs. Heaton, were all soaking up an afternoon nap. A double...
...time (an interglacial period), the Arctic Ocean is mostly covered with ice. Very little water evaporates from it, and so the lands around it get little precipitation, and the glaciers in Greenland and northern Canada do not grow. But if the Arctic Ocean were ice-free because of more warm water flowing into it from the south, a great deal of snow would fall on the cold northern interiors of Eurasia and North America, and not all of it would melt in summer. Glaciers would grow and march southward toward New York and Paris...
...glaciers would not grow indefinitely. After a few ten thousands of years, they would lock up so much of the ocean's water that sea level all over the world would fall. Communication between the Arctic and North Atlantic oceans would be reduced, so that less warm water could flow northward over the "sill" between Norway and Greenland. Deprived of warmth, the Arctic Ocean would freeze over. The great continental glaciers, deprived of snowfall, would waste slowly away, restoring their water to the oceans. Then the level of the sea would rise. Warm Atlantic water would flow freely into...
...compass course. In late evening the wind shifted to the southwest, and Mitchell's crew changed from a spinnaker to a balloon jib. As the small (38 ft. 8 in. overall) yawl left coastal waters, the crew took hourly water-temperature readings, knew they had entered the warm-water Gulf Stream when the thermometer rose to 78°. Navigation was difficult during the whole crossing because of overcast, and Finisterre navigated the last 75 miles by Bermuda radio...