Word: warmed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...McLain kept moving so fast that Kane hardly had a chance to ask all the necessary questions. Kane found himself taking notes while chatting at the water fountain in the Tiger dugout, while chasing his man through hotel lobbies, in between sessions at a television studio and on the warm-up mound in the stadium bullpen. His biggest break came when the brakes locked on a plane that was bringing the Tiger star from Boston to New York. McLain fumed at the delay, but there he was-trapped in the cabin with Kane for one long hour, with nothing...
There was reason enough to be sanguine. Beginning his push in Chicago, where the Democratic cause had been staggered by police clubs the week before, Nixon received a warm reception from huge noontime crowds in the Loop. During his 45-minute ride through the heart of the city, confetti poured from office buildings. Signs screamed VIVA NIXON and DUMP HUMP-NIXON'S THE ONE. People jumped through police lines to shake the candidate's hand. While the excitement hardly matched a Robert Kennedy happening, Nixon, like Kennedy before him, suffered a scratched wrist and lost a cuff link...
...cities will remain relatively calm depends largely on what happens to those programs. "It's an oversimplification to think that there will not be more rioting," says CORE Chief Roy Innis. Like some other Negro leaders, he argues that warfare in the ghettos will expand from a warm-weather phenomenon to a year-round activity unless white leaders give an even higher priority to creating more jobs for blacks-and realize that slum dwellers, particularly the young, have just grievances during the long, cold winter as well...
...Warm Walls. The diggers discovered a section of the ancient Vienne-Lyon highway consisting of irregular granite paving stones three feet thick interspersed with limestone blocks. Holes cut in the limestone enabled inspectors to keep an eye on the sewer system underneath. The Romans had also anticipated the roadside refreshment stand by building a bar at the edge of the road, complete with earthen vases in which beverages were kept cool. A chariot driver could pull up to the bar and drink standing up while his horses drank at an adjacent fountain...
...want your warm body to disappear politely and leave me alone in the bath...