Word: warm
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...foggy, warm morning last week, the Negro boycott against the Montgomery, Ala. city bus lines came to an end-381 days after it began. The Negroes had won their fight: they rode unsegregated on buses in the Confederacy's birthplace. Desegregation still had a long way to go, but after Montgomery, Jim Crow would never again be quite the same...
...return to the hopelessness of the burned-out ruins of Tokyo or to start a new life as pioneers on the far northern island of Hokkaido. Government posters showed Hokkaido's inviting green landscapes, its fat dairy herds, its red brick silos and its snug, warm farmhouses. Along with some 190,000 other Japanese families, the Gotos seized the opportunity...
Love in a Home (Doris Day; Columbia). A warm sentiment from the show Li'l Abner: "You can tell when you open the door ... if there's love in a home...
...brothers (Lloyd Bridges and Earl Holliman). "I just want to be a woman." They rush into town and, in a hilarious parody of the old John Alden bit, invite the deputy sheriff (Wendell Corey) out to supper. The sheriff lends a helping hand. "You need somethin' warm up against yer backside at night," he declares. "Last night," the deputy doubtfully recalls, "was 104 degrees...
...Hungary, he came back to denounce U.N., privately but in strong terms, for being ineffectual. Personality: Sometimes called a "junior Churchill" because of his genial, jowly resemblance, balding, 230-lb. Spaak is an eloquent and dramatic speaker in his own right, with an inexhaustible fund of energy and a warm passion for good talk, good food and good company. Writhing in histrionic impatience on a parliamentary bench, his face contorted with unspoken rejoinders, he has been known to reduce opposition speakers to near paralysis. At work alone, however, he is calm, efficient and dictatorial. "You can do whatever you want...