Word: warm
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Pakistan appreciate . . . that it is not enough to offer a warm welcome and a friendly cup of tea ... Incentives must be given to industrialists before they can be expected to undertake new ventures in a foreign and distant land...
...Horace Greeley said, 'Go West, young man.' I say to the investor who is young and vigorous in mind, 'Go East or West Pakistan, my friend. You will find a warm welcome and a rich reward...
...singing. Said Cleveland-born Bender: "We don't hold meetings in Cleveland without singing and praying and shouting." But he added: "I sing horribly." Under Bender's exhortations ("What's the matter with this audience? This isn't a funeral parlor."), the spectators began to warm up. Bender eyed them wistfully. Said he: "If my throat was in good shape, I'd sing...
...thing for tornado predictors to watch for is a "pressure jump." When conditions are right, as they all too frequently are in tornado regions, the air contains an "inversion," a layer whose temperature is sharply different from the air above or below it. Since cold air is heavier than warm air, the boundary between the layers may have "gravity waves" in it, just as the ocean has waves in the boundary between water...
...vivid pictures of such figures as the late King Ibn Saud (whom he served as unofficial adviser) and of the beauties and terrors of the great Nufud Desert (where Asad was caught in a sandstorm without supplies and lost for three days). Threaded through the travelogues is a warm and enlightening picture of the world's second largest religion and its believers, who seem to Asad to be free of "those phantoms of fear, greed and inhibition that made European life so ugly...