Word: warmed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Harvard had only five minutes before the game to warm up because the bus never arrived to take the players from the motel to the field. Private cars were obtained at the last moment. "We were rubber legs for the first quarter," Coach Bruce Munro said, "but we started playing better as the game went...
...welcome and moving was the warm humanity of Cardinal Cushing's sympathy and understanding for Jackie in her many tragedies and the bitterness and condemnation she now faces. And how passionately and how readily the petty Roman bureaucrats cast the first stone...
...political position. It also provided training. Under cover of the Suez barrage, about 70 soldiers crossed the canal and staged an ambush, killing two Israeli soldiers. But the most intricate theory had it that Nasser had been put up to it by his Russian advisers as a warm-up for an attempt to clear the Suez by force. No country has felt the pinch of the Suez shutdown more than Russia, which must send its ships around Africa to Asia in order to keep Hanoi supplied, among other things. The Russians have a dredge in the Mediterranean, and could send...
...Starfighter pilot, Josef Linowski, a Polish-born civilian, and Manfred Ramminger, another civilian, worked together to steal a navigational device from the Zell airbase in southern Germany. Ramminger then casually packed it in his suitcase and flew off to Moscow to deliver his prize. That, however, was a mere warm-up for their big operation...
...strength. I scarcely felt the quivering of wings inside me, life's complaint, the wea' rebellion of the mind. Soon, scattered to the four corners of the earth, self-forgetful and self-forgotten, I am the wind and within it, the columns and the archway, the flagstones warm to the touch, the pale mountains around the deserted city. And never have I felt so deeply at one and the same time so detached from myself and so present in the world." Yet, despite this lyrical sensualism, it was Camus' beiief in an intellectual revolt (after facing...