Word: warm
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Harry Truman's Minister to Luxembourg, Perle Mesta kept old friendships warm on both sides of the political fence. Her latchkey was always out for her good friends Ike & Mamie Eisenhower, who frequently dropped over to get away from the routine at SHAPE. Last week a Washington reporter asked Minister Mesta what she would be doing the day after inauguration. Replied Perle hopefully: "I now don't know what I'll be doing. I love Luxembourg, though. I just love Luxembourg. I've had lots of offers . . . but right now all I can think about...
...where a jet plane can fly, the air is no use to the pilot. If his cabin should lose its pressurizing, he would die just as quickly (about 15 seconds) as if he were in the vacuum of space. At a slightly higher altitude (63,000 ft.), his warm blood would boil, making his flesh swell up with bubbles like cookies baking in an oven...
...hopes that the Russians will not be the first to garrison an orbit. (Last week the Russian magazine Ogonek predicted that the Soviet flag will be raised on the moon within 50 years.) Von Braun admits that his writings have been deliberate attempts to arouse popular enthusiasm and warm the cold feet of timid military planners. In writing for the public, he has had to omit convincing details that would have made his plan sound much more practical. During the last few years, he says, behind the wall of military secrecy there has been great progress. He believes that...
Among the short story authors, only Nora Sayre has a firm command of language and an interesting subject. In Museum, she gives a warm, personal and unprepossessing account of people she saw looking at modern sculpture. Her prose moves swiftly, concentrates in her own feelings as a sculptress, and digresses on simple reactions of other people in an entirely captivating...
...portable public-address system, equipped with battery, twelve-inch speaker and six transistors, which takes no time to warm up, can be carried in one hand...