Word: warm
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Adenauer also gave the U.S. a warm and revealing glimpse of the humanity that lies behind his implacable face-Adenauer grinning in cap and gown when Yale's President A. Whitney Griswold hammed up his Latin while presenting degrees; Adenauer barnstorming down Chicago's State Street behind a smart-stepping brass band; Adenauer wagging a finger at possible flaws in Washington's National Gallery of Art ("School of Piero della Francesco,, perhaps"); Adenauer boning up on his personal press notices at 7:30 a.m.; Adenauer falling hours behind schedule as he talked to those he wanted...
...tricks are not there to fool people but to be discovered. And under the apparent coolness of Albers' art lies a warm philosophy. His pictures play with two sets of supposed irreconcilables: order v. freedom and identity v. change. They demonstrate his abiding faith that these things are not irreconcilable...
...that the NAACP should not continue putting test cases through the local courts: it should. Nor is it to say that the U.S. Justice Department has been diligent in prosecuting violations of civil rights: it has not. Nor is it to argue that the President has exhibited the warm creative leadership that he could so effectively focus upon the national Negro problem: his leadership in this regard has been virtually nil. But what we do say, and what we have tried to show by various case studies in this special supplement, is that the nation's racial wounds...
Ivory Tower (Gale Storm; Dot). Another waltz in the rinky-dink style that seems to go with the rock-'n'-roll idiom. The simple-minded but bestselling message: "It's cold, so cold, in your ivory tower, and warm, so warm in my arms...
...with 1,890 tons of activated alumina, which soaks up 1.5 tons (ten bathtubs) of water per minute. On a muggy day the alumina has to be dried out after two hours, and this takes enough gas burners to keep the whole city of Berea, Ohio (pop. 13,200) warm in winter. The air in the tunnel must be cooled, and the job is done by cooling apparatus equivalent to 250,000 household air conditioners...