Word: warm
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...years, dead still for a 45-minute time exposure. After overcoming the hazards of Venice's crowded streets and ringing church bells, both resulting in imperceptible vibrations of the building's walls, Kessel discovered another hazard that blurred his picture. The heat from the floodlights made warm air behind the painting push the canvas almost microscopically while his shutter was open. He finally prevented that by heating the painting beforehand with lights. The result was worth the effort: Italian art experts said that Kessel's results "succeeded for the first time in reproducing photographically Tintoretto...
...delegates turned out to be top-drawer officials, ranging from a big collective-farm chairman to the boss of all Soviet farming, Acting Minister of Agriculture Vladimir Matskevich, 45, a suave, shaven-headed Ukrainian henchman of Communist Party Chief Nikita Khrushchev. Under the influence of Iowa's warm welcome and 90° heat, they quickly melted, shed their dark jackets, switched to shirtsleeves, straw hats and smiles. When someone complained about the heat, Matskevich stole Iowa's favorite reply: "Yes, but it's very good for the corn...
Modest Proposal. But Eden, though he praised Eisenhower's "eloquent" proposal, and was "deeply moved by the sincerity and warm feeling for peace," was a little miffed. Such sweeping proposals do not accord with the traditional British diplomatic search for limited objectives. Eden submitted his own "more modest" proposal-a "simple" system for joint inspection of Communist and Western forces now confronting each other in Europe. Once more, while the news of the Eisenhower plan flashed around the world, the conference returned to its pre-ordained ways. Eden's modest proposal was for a "practical experiment" in "operative...
...professionals do more than that -they do filigree work, background and single-string playing that bring out the undeveloped qualities of the instrument." Concert Banjoist José Silva, whose educated banjo can romp through complicated pieces like the Hungarian Rhapsody and Poet and Peasant, loves his instrument for its warm humanity-about as far from the denatured ickiness of an electric guitar as he can get. "The banjo is a wild thing," he says. "You stroke it wildly, and that figure-eight gesture they used to use on it is fine for a banjo. People like the banjo because...
...Warm-Weather Cheers. Chicago's optimists had a hard time believing Slats. The Sox, after all, had an unnerving and persistent failing called a June swoon, a mid-season slump that started them sliding toward the second division. But last week, even the diehards agreed that Marion's cold-weather prediction might pan out. The White Sox took two out of three games from the disintegrating Yanks; they split a four-game series with the Boston Red Sox and at week's end they were scrapping with the Yanks and Indians for the league lead...