Word: warm
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...citizens who thank their lucky stars that they can afford to pay taxes to defend their land, afford to pay for all the luxuries Americans enjoy . . . who deem it a privilege to help the world remain free, so that we may remain free ourselves. We are admittedly a warm-hearted people when disaster strikes. Must we be awakened by a cataclysm...
...only he were a monk, thought Cantalbert, he could live in a warm room, and have friends, and feed the birds and pray to the Holy Virgin. So he became a monk. But the other monks said Latin prayers and he knew no Latin. They chanted chants and he didn't know how to chant. They painted frescoes or copied manuscripts, or taught Scripture or cooked, and Cantalbert didn't know how to do any of these things. He felt more of a failure than ever, and the other monks complained about...
...estimated crowd of 16,000, largest for an opener since 1948, is expected to watch a new rivalry open under warm, sunny skies. Attendance has been bolstered by free undergraduate tickets...
...attacking the music. Her tone had none of the acid brilliance of a Heifetz, but in roundness and warmth resembled Kreisler's. She scorned fireworks or virtuosity. "She is an artist," said one De Vito fan, "not a virtuoso." In the Vivaldi concerto last week her violin was warm and passionate, blending with the stronger tones of Stern and Menuhin in a performance which all but capped the festival...
...made more, but Augie still doesn't know what he wants. An intellectual friend tries to guess: "O King David! O Plutarch and Seneca! O chivalry! . . . O Strozzi Palace. O Weimar! O Don Giovanni, O lineaments of gratified desire! O godlike man! Tell me, pal, am I getting warm?" He is. But by this time, war has come, and Augie, joining the merchant marine, goes to New York. He sees Stella there, marries her and reflects that he doesn't envy his brother, "seeing I was married to a woman I loved and therefore I was advancing...