Word: warm
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Fleece-Lined. In Chicago, when police caught Raymond Conners at the International Livestock Exposition with a lamb hidden under his coat, he explained: "It was wandering in the aisles and I just wanted to keep it warm...
Outside on the street, it was a warm afternoon. In Jordan Marsh's windows were scenes of local churches, seen through a revolving glass, ersatz snow falling, like through a Bendix window. A Salvation Army band moved up and played carols. The trumpeter looked like Boston's own Major Barbara and the crowd listened. Two young Oliver Twists blew horns and the leader pumped a trombone, trying vainly to look as little like a bank clerk as possible. By the curb, a small aging woman held out her tambourine. An S.A. cap sat on her stringy grey curls; her eyes...
...mammals. After only 12½ days' gestation, the mother props herself into a sitting position and delivers a large litter of tiny (20 can fit into a teaspoon), wormlike young. Still little more than squirming, pink embryos, the baby possums clamber upward over their mother's soft, warm underbelly and into the pouch that opens and closes like an old-fashioned tobacco sack. There they fasten themselves to one of 13 pinhead teats and are nourished for two months while they grow to the size of young rats. Outside the pouch, they are carried about clinging to their...
...Gibbens in the Practitioner (London), "are expensive, difficult to wash, and are water-repellent, so that when we move with any energy at all we sweat and stay wet and itchy and smelly for the rest of the day." His remedy: "dishcloth underclothes," knitted of cotton yarn. Just as warm as wool, he says, easier to wash, softer-and cheaper...
...important difference. The new Revised Standard Version, product of 15 years of scholarship, was one of the few Bibles ever copyrighted. With the best book-shopping weeks still ahead, 1,600,000 copies had been sold. Next to the Bible on the bestseller list stood Catherine Marshall's warm, clear-eyed biography of her husband, the late chaplain of the Senate, A Man Called Peter...