Word: warmed
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This is to express my warm appreciation of your excellent cover article on independent schools in the U.S. [Oct. 26]. This accurate picture of the aims, ideals, and accomplishments of these schools has brought salient facts to a very wide segment of the public...
Heating Pads & Houses. These warm feelings seem to have married the trading stamp to the U.S. economy for better or worse. Some 375 billion stamps will leave their glue on American tongues in 1962. They will be issued under about 300 different names, but 90% of them will come from one of the eight big stamp companies: S & H Green Stamps, Top Value, Plaid Stamps, Gold Bond, Frontier, Blue Chip, King Korn, Triple S. The goods for which they were redeemed in 1961 amounted to approximately $800 million worth (at list prices), and included 14% of the heating pads...
...other girl was Sylvia Pratt, warm-spirited daughter of a noted Boston doctor, and Kemper married her soon after he graduated in 1935-132nd in a class of 275. A "sand-rat lieutenant," he was soon running a cram school for getting enlisted men into West Point, did so well that in 1939 the Point yanked him out of the infantry to teach history. He dutifully earned a Columbia master's degree in 1942 while itching to go to war. In its wisdom, the Army put him in G-2 with the prickly job of organizing U.S. historians...
Their good work also earned them a number of handsome contributions (somehow the name Rockefeller keeps popping up when Advance's financial backers are discussed). Encouraged by their success, most of the Advance editors, who graduated last spring, deserted the warm, friendly cinder block walls of Quincy House and struck out for Washington...
Wives who loathe the hostess, love the host, clearly cannot kiss only the latter. (Best choice: kiss both.) Professionally, what about the boss's wife? (Let her kiss first.) Physically, how to avoid the host determined to bestow a really really warm welcome? (Embrace his wife until spontaneity ebbs.) Does a kiss upon entrance demand a similar display on the way out? (Only if the host blocks the only exit...