Word: warm
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...back through Abilene, in front of St. Andrew's Church, Ike suddenly ordered his chauffeur to stop the car when a woman broke through the crowd and dashed into the street. The President greeted her with a warm kiss on the cheek and announced that she was Mrs. Gladys Brooks, his high-school sweetheart. On the way back to Salina, Ike halted the motorcade once more at a drive-in melon market. He enthusiastically accepted a dripping slice of cantaloupe from the flabbergasted proprietors, bought two watermelons to take along with...
...weather was exceedingly warm and the ceremonies strikingly tedious. There was much inexcusable slugglishness and delay in the movements of the officials. . . . The aisles were crowded with a heated and panting congregation...
...directed them to come in. The bedroom they entered was empty, but the voice, which seemed to be coming from the bathroom, gave them further directions: "In here." Proceeding solemnly into the bathroom, the two diplomats found Secretary of State John Foster Dulles stretched out full-length in a warm tub, his arms folded upon his chest in an attitude suggestive of the funeral effigy of Henry III in Westminster Abbey. Brushing aside his subordinates' apologies, Dulles dealt with their problem in matter-of-fact fashion, then relapsed into his yogi-like trance for a few minutes' more...
...Bowen does not advise silver-iodide seeding from ground generators. He has tried it with little success except on clouds that would probably have yielded rain anyway. On the other hand, he got good results by spraying water into warm clouds containing vertical currents. Such clouds produce much of Australia's rain...
...walls: plain pine panels washed with thin yellow varnish, then overlaid with a white rococo design. Most interesting feature: a white brick fireplace with a conical hood under which sits a copper brazier that can be used to cook an informal roast or light a formal dinner. ¶ A warm and woolly Explorer's Study by William Pahlmann, which combines the comforts of a modern Manhattan flat with the old wood stove of a backwoods cabin. Among the features: a wall paneled in sturdy oak, a sleek, yellow lacquer desk...