Word: warm
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Round One. On a sweltering day, Hogan appeared on the course dressed in a heavy cardigan sweater, explaining that he wanted to keep his ailing back warm. Back warm and putter hot, Ben blazed around the course in 67-never once going over par-for a three-stroke lead...
...than other, neater objects, such as, for example, drainpipes. Neither the rich shadows of Renaissance painting nor the dazzling highlights of Impressionism intrigue Léger; he sticks to bright, flat, posterlike hues. He never sings the glory of dappled things, nor does he praise anything soft, warm, delicate or liquid. Under Léger's firm brush, foliage, flesh, hair, fabrics, clouds and the very air itself take on an appearance of stamped, enameled...
...soft green islands of Indonesia, lifting their distant volcanoes against flashing thunderheads, lie melancholy and mysterious in the warm blue seas between the continents of Asia and Australia. U.S. and allied military forces swept through these islands in a few months of World War II, liberating them from Japanese conquest. Because the Roosevelt Administration objected violently to colonialism, the U.S. was determined that the islands should also be liberated from the Dutchmen who for more than 300 years had been masters of Indonesia...
Juan PerÓn received his late wife's double at his suburban home. "I had a little stage fright at first," she reported later, "but after five minutes you forget he's the President; he's just another man. He was very friendly. Very warm. Very enthusiastic. Very kind. He told me 'Your hands are just like my wife's.' He also said my figure was like Evita...
...only person in existence who had seen Harriet Beecher Stowe drunk" It happened when youthful, innocent Hostess Aldrich decided to impart a higher tone to her claret cup by adding the contents of a curiously shaped bottle which she understood came from a Carthusian monastery." The day was warm, and after downing two tumblers of the brew, Visitor Stowe had the illusion that she had become a sailor. Her "berth" (the sofa), she complained, was "going up and down" so tempestuously that she had difficulty in climbing into it. Her last words, growled out as she collapsed...