Word: warmers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Namias of Scripps Institution of Oceanography has been investigating unexplained links between ocean temperatures and weather. He has found, for instance, that the formation of hot and cold patches in specific parts of the Pacific appears to be followed by colder-than-normal winters in the Eastern U.S. and warmer-than-normal winters in the West. If enough patterns of that kind can be found, says Namias, they could tip off long-range trends...
...this story, sliding down bannisters remains a valid method of athletic expression. Since the advent of the two-story building, human beings have taken to their asses instead of tripping downstairs, great distance runners have borne the name "bannister" in celebration of the rival sport, and the term "bench-warmer" was bestowed on the American language by the particular frustration of second-string sliders who were forced to maintain more orthodox carriages during key bannister contests...
Born in Rapid City, S. Dak., Hartmann was raised in Niagara Falls and California, where his family moved when he was nine in hopes that a warmer climate would end his repeated bouts with pneumonia. After he graduated from Stanford University in 1938, a globe-trotting student tour of Japan, China and Europe whetted his interest in journalism, and he joined the Los Angeles Times to cover the police and local courts. In 1954 he was made chief of the newspaper's first full-time Washington bureau and soon became one of then Vice President Nixon's favorite...
...novel The Friendly Persuasion, moved to Whittier, Calif., at the turn of the century. His father, Francis Anthony Nixon, was an Ohio Methodist with only six years of formal education who left his job as a trolley-car operator in Columbus and drifted to Southern California in search of warmer weather. After Frank married Hannah in 1908, he was barely able to scrape by as a citrus-fruit farmer, grocer and gas-station owner. A neighbor described Frank Nixon as "brusque, loud, dogmatic...
...earned an Oscar for portraying Mr. Morgan in How Green Was My Valley, his 135th film, then went on to make some 300 more movies. He appeared as Elizabeth Taylor's father in National Velvet (1944), and was last seen as Grandpa in the 1963 heart-warmer Spencer's Mountain...