Word: warm
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...school in West Side Chicago, many of the 1,200 youngsters were beginning to turn away from books, fidget in their seats, wonder if the 3 p.m. dismissal bell would ever ring. In fifth-grade geography on the second floor, the teacher thought that the room was getting too warm. Said she: 'Why don't some of you boys open the windows?" In fourth-grade arithmetic, a boy blurted: "Sister, I smell smoke." Smoke began to seep under classroom doors, through open transoms. A fire alarm clanged. The fourth-grade teacher opened the door, found the corridor full...
What is worse is having the same symptoms as talent, the pain, the ugly swellings, the lot--but never knowing whether the diagnosis is correct. Do you think there may be some kind of euthanasia for that? Could you kill it by burying yourself here--for good? ...Would the warm, generous, honest-to-goodness animal lying at your side every night, with its honest-to-goodness love--would it make you forget...
...order to find out, Dillon first seduces and then gets engaged to the Elliot daughter, Josie, a member of the English equivalent of our local rock-'n'-roll-hair-curlers-and-chewing-gum set, who is neither warm, generous, nor particularly honest-to-goodness...
There were four girls in the back seat of the bus on the way home for Thanksgiving. It was warm and stuffy and it took at least a half hour for them to discover they were all from Wellesley. Each was a freshman, two had absolute peaches for housemothers, and they all took a critical and philosophical view of courses...
...singing, which should have been the glory of the performance, was disturbingly uneven. Soprano Rysanek's warm, lambent voice was as beautiful as ever, but she displayed an alarming tendency to soar to high notes and then to wander around dazedly for several bars while she tried to come down again. Bjoerling's lyric tenor lacked the heroic style that the role of Radames demands, and Gobbi was far from his compelling best. Only Mezzo Simionato sang with the range, color and fire that her fans have come to expect of her. The voices of the supporting singers...