Word: warm
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Wherever the train stopped, there were warm, affectionate crowds. At Jefferson City, Mo., a woman admonished Truman in crisp, motherly tones: "Put your hat on. We don't want you to catch cold." But the reception Harry Truman was eagerly looking forward to was the one at Independence. Said he: "I guess they'll put the big pot inside the little pot and break both of them...
...smaller colleges would get a chance to make the best use of their football talent. In practice, things worked out just the opposite. More boys played, but they became the robot-like specialists of the two-platoon system; injuries increased because the players never got a chance to warm up again after riding the bench; and more than 50 colleges quit football because they had neither the money nor the manpower to support the huge two-platoon squads. Last week, abruptly ending an unhappy era, the N.C.A.A.'s football rules committee abolished the two-platoon system, gave the game...
...fact that most of your readers will have felt a warm elation at seeing the Queen's face is the best and only real reason for winning this prominent place...
...Korea, the Communists in recent weeks have been doing much of their fighting with loudspeakers. Red messages blare across no man's land promising hot food, good treatment and warm shelter to Eighth Army troops who go over to the Red side. Sometimes the Reds promise liquor, women, steaks and even automobiles (make unspecified). But the enemy's loudspeaker campaign has been, to put it mildly, ineffective. He has broadcast Swedish music and talks in German to Dutch troops, the haunting strains of Carry Me Back to Old Virginny to unmoved South Koreans, and he has offered...
Stravinsky: Concerto for Piano and Wind Orchestra (Mewton-Wood, piano; members of The Hague's Residentie Orchestra conducted by Walter Goehr; Concert Hall). An incisive performance of one of Stravinsky's most inventive and amusing works (1924). Appealing and even warm in its stylishly static...