Word: warm
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Moderate Cubans hoped that Castro had learned as well as talked on his U.S. trip. One ranking member of the Castro party declared that "Fidel was astonished at his warm reception. It profoundly changed his thinking about the U.S." Red-liners in the Castro movement were worried. Major Ernesto ("Che") Guevara, pro-Communist commander of Castro's bloody Cabana Fortress in Havana, warned that "foreign influences are trying to prevent the success of the revolution...
Representatives of the Harvard Square Business Men's Association and the Cambridge Trust Co. voiced warm approval of the proposal, and no one objected...
Johnson drew warm applause when he spoke to the 47th annual meeting of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce about paring down the spending total and said, "I believe in a balanced budget...
...station wagon stepped the 23-year-old Dalai Lama, God-King of Tibet, wearing a beatific smile but sniffling slightly from a head cold. His eyes were bright and warm behind orange-rimmed glasses, and he wore the simple russet gown of a high lama, with no special marks of rank. Surrounded by his mother, brother and sister and by Cabinet ministers and officials, the Dalai Lama smiled and nodded as he moved slowly by the news photographers...
When astronomers (or science-fiction writers) speculate about nonearthly kinds of life, they generally think of strange beings existing on planets revolving around a star that is at the proper distance to keep them reasonably warm. Astronomer Harlow Shapley, former head of the Harvard Observatory, has figured that there are probably 100,000 life-bearing planets in the Milky Way galaxy. Last week Shapley suggested that the universe may contain another class of celestial bodies that could sustain life. They are neither planets nor true stars, and are somewhere in between the two in size-perhaps 100 times bigger than...