Word: warm
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Secretary-General Fanfani could see that these words carried weight with the Demo-Christian elders, and that in a showdown Fanfani, and not Scelba, would be beaten. So Fanfani executed a hasty but fairly graceful retreat. When the delegates drafted and passed a warm resolution praising Scelba and his coalition, Fanfani chimed in with a show of enthusiasm...
...count for sharp changes of climate. Dr. Hubbs believes that 300 years ago the weather was more tropical along the Lower California coast. From 700 to 1,100 years ago, it was colder than now. Twenty-five hundred years ago and 4,000 years ago, it was unusually warm. Today that part of Lower California is about as dry as possible; Dr. Hubbs thinks that the region probably got more rain during both its warm and its cold spells. Thus the land may well have been able to support the large Indian population reported, to be living there...
...Oxygen 18, a rare, nonradioactive isotope of oxygen, is less abundant in the calcium carbonate of shells formed in warm water than it is in those formed in cold water...
Such peaceful, secluded living has served to heighten the chief quality of Gerassi's paintings: a warm and sunny kind of innocence. But the simplicity actually springs from an arduous process of trial and error-from "failures," as he says...
...Summer of Happiness (Times Film). "Say, let's swim!" cries Goran (Folk Sundquist). He is alone with Kerstin in the woods near the edge of a lake, and the day is as warm as days ever get in Sweden. Kerstin (Ulla Jacobsson), who is only 17, dimples and looks away, but then she says, "For you I'm not bashful." They undress and run laughing and gasping into the icy shallows. The laughter dies on Goran's lips as he sees her standing there, pretty as a pear. "Kerstin!" he says. She turns toward hirn with...