Word: warm
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...President's proposal got a warm bipartisan reception in both Houses of Congress, even though it was essentially the same as a plan sent up by Harry Truman in 1950. (Like Truman's, Ike's plan was based on recommendations of the Hoover Commission.) Truman was turned down because Republicans, many Democrats and the powerful American Medical Association mistrusted his Fair Dealing Federal Security Administrator Oscar Ewing, the man who would have got the Cabinet job in 1950. Congress suspected that Truman and Ewing would use the proposed Cabinet job for further expansion of the bureaucracy...
...three angels-two of them murderers, the third a swindler-take the visitors on. All three badmen have sunny natures, warm hearts, clever hands, sleepless brains; all three are passionate believers in the robinhood of man. Possessing every criminal art and penal grace, they set matters aright in a Gallic Christmas Carol where it is simpler to bump Scrooge off than to convert...
Crowning six weeks of warm debate, sporadic voting, and repeated revision, the Student Council last night issued its statement on the "students' view" of academic freedom...
...kulak crisis his young (31) wife Nadezhda died, some sources say by her own hand, some say by Stalin's. Stalin buried her with honors in Novodevichy Monastery in Moscow, and erected a marble statue. Said he: "She is dead, and with her have died my last warm feelings for all human beings...
...founded Ave Maria. But this time he knew better than to herd his pupils inside the church. Taking his cue from Maestra Migas, he held all classes outdoors. There were no textbooks or blackboards; students learned by playing games and singing special songs under the flowering trees and warm Andalusian...