Word: warmed
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...imagination conceived." Theodore Roosevelt considered it "a fifth wheel to the coach." Harry Truman said it was "useful as a cow's fifth teat," and John Nance Garner, Vice President under Franklin Roosevelt, told fellow Texan Johnson that the office was not worth a "pitcher of warm spit." In the days of Richard Nixon, it seemed that the vice-presidency was changing, toward greater scope and power. But Eisenhower delegated to Nixon special roles as Administration spokesman and party leader. Those roles were not inherent in the office of Vice President and left no permanent impress upon it. Politician...
...miners went back into the mines on Sunday. Rome's city water authority told consumers to leave their taps on at night to prevent them from freezing; in London, 1,600 frozen water mains burst. Maternity nurses in a London hospital hit by a power failure kept incubators warm by pouring boiling water into containers around them...
Time was when finding a warm place to go to with adequate eating and sleeping accommodations was something of an achievement; it was par for the course if the beach turned out to be ten miles from the nearest hotel and the sand flies seemed insatiable. But today, with the increasing sophistication of the U.S. vacationist and the enterprise of the developers, the Caribbean offers something for everybody. In the bigger centers, new hotels provide the best in air-conditioned comfort and sophisticated food for those who want cocktail-lounge luxury, the dim-lit excitement of a gambling casino...
...Happiness Is a Warm Puppy, Schulz...
...aimed unerringly at the point where the story is growing; and the actors are used in the inimitable Bergman manner-as windows not so much seen as seen through, as ways of entering a reality that lies within them and beyond them. In Mai Zetterling, for instance, Bergman sees warm flesh and hot blood, but he also sees through body into being, into the luminous soul of a woman in love...