Word: warm
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...house, "Dun's Law" (which betrays the family's Highlands origin), will be warm enough during Christmas, despite certain draughty cracks between the kitchen part (about 130 years old) and the living room part (about 75 years old). Like most of the village houses, it has had additions, interpolations and subtractions through the years, and like many of the dwellings, it once served as a boarding house itself. Oil furnaces have made the constant struggle to keep warm only a memory, though most housewives insist that their kitchens have at least a token woodstove for toast and rice-pudding making...
...favorite pastimes is verbal fencing with the village postmaster and storekeeper, a quick wit and warm-souled man who longs during baking July noons for crisp October dawns at the remote Lake St. John, where he makes his annual duck-hunting excursion. His work seems like play to most people because he has a good time with almost everyone, gently ribbing arrogant, hurried visitors, facetiously stalling intent and flashy wholesalers' "drummers." His laugh sounds more like a caw of a crow than anything else, and there's usually something--whether it's the Red Sox, the "Com'unists," or lazy...
Municipal election day came clear and warm last week to Clinton, Tenn. Main Street was gay with holly and Christmas lights. The Rev. Paul Turner, 33, pastor of the First Baptist Church, the community's largest, dressed slowly before setting out on a mission of importance and, as it developed, of danger. On the outskirts of town, a small band of white men glared up at the cluster of homes atop Foley's Hill, where live the Negroes whose children would try soon again to attend Clinton high school. Thus did Clinton (pop. about 3,700 law-abiding...
...fable for the situation. "Did Marianne take John Bull to an unknown rendezvous? Did Marianne say to John Bull that there was a forest fire going to start, and did John Bull then say, 'We ought to put it out,' but Marianne said, 'No, let us warm our hands by it. It is a nice fire'? Did Marianne deceive John Bull or seduce...
Sits there doing nothing. . .waits. . . doesn't make a sound. . . just sits there in the silence and the cold. . . waiting. Hides by night then strikes when the day grows warm. . .clutches and oozes. . .seeps and slides and slithers. . .and then gets black and ugly and makes repulsive noises when disturbed. No emotion at all. . . no real technique. Ruins the streets. . .messes the shoes. . .turns the cuffs. . .soaks the socks. And its ugly, ugly, ugly...