Word: warm
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...final touch, the Agency has even taught its vendors how to appeal to their Harvard customers. "Get your icecold hotdog here," one was heard to wail, offering a tolerably warm specimen. Then plaintively, "Please, somebody buy this hotdog." And people do. Each sale earns three cents for the hawker, and a penny saved is $50,000 a year...
...Mexico's President López Mateos (see HEMISPHERE). Last year, after returning from his tempestuous visit to Latin America, Vice President Nixon recommended that the U.S. distinguish more clearly among the breeds of neighboring national leaders, offer only a cool handshake to dictators but warmly embrace democratically chosen chiefs of state. When López Mateos arrived at Washington's National Airport, the President was there and, symbolic of the increasingly friendly relationship between the U.S. and its next-door southern neighbor, saluted him not only with an abrazo but a warm handshake...
...warm, sunlit autumn of 1959, Britons could unreservedly agree upon one proposition: never had so many of them had so much, with so few misgivings. The careless shrug of prosperity provided the title for Britain's current movie hit, I'm All Right, Jack. New restaurants and coffee bars, supermarkets and service stations were mushrooming in cities; in suburban subdivisions, new houses priced from $6,000 to $12,000 often sold before the foundations were laid. In offices and factories, bulletin boards were gay with postcards from vacationing workers in Rome, Majorca, the Costa Brava...
...Mateos stepped out, a thundering 21-gun salute split the air; the U.S. Army Band rolled through Mexico's national anthem; a 231-man honor guard snapped to attention. On the red carpet stood Dwight Eisenhower, all smiles. "Bienvenido," said Ike, giving his guest a warm Latin-style embrace...
...cordial atmosphere at the opening of a U.S. sponsored, 12-nation conference was quite warm. Delegates openly voiced hope that the conference would produce in a few weeks a treaty outlawing any military use of the vast, unsettled subcontinent...