Word: warmest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Please accept my warmest congratulations on your article on Greece [TIME, May 23], for it is the first time that the facts have been told with such sincerity. All Greeks are grateful for the aid that the U.S. has given to Greece. With this American aid, with the Greek fighting spirit, and, above all, with God's help, I am sure that communism will soon cease to exist in the tortured land of Hellas...
There was other good news. The elite of Kabuto Cho, Tokyo's Wall Street, met at the Tokyo stock exchange, wearing their best pin-striped trousers and their warmest smiles. There was some happy oratory. One speaker exclaimed: "The blossoms are opening;" the meeting's chairman called for a teuchi shiki (an old Japanese ceremony of congratulations). The assembled bankers and brokers solemnly rose and clapped their hands in unison, 13 times. Then they adjourned for a buffet lunch of roast beef, beer and strawberry shortcake...
...Ferment. Japan last week scarcely looked like the proper setting for such portentous words. The cherry blossoms were advancing northward through the islands. The first white buds had appeared at Kagoshima, Japan's southernmost and warmest port. Slowly they had taken all of Kyushu Island and, crossing the narrow straits, had established a beachhead on the rocky coast of Honshu. The blossoms last week sprouted near the Kure dockyards and on a thousand drowsy islands dotting the Inland...
...Britain alone, but throughout the world, the welfare state was on the rise. Even the U.S., which had a more or less undeserved reputation as the last great citadel of individual independence, was entering a new phase of its long debate over socialized services. One of the warmest issues in the U.S. at the moment was socialized medicine...
...Cribbage Board. A hearty, goodfellow type of woman, Perle Mesta is an Oklahoma widow, whose wealth came from a marriage of Oklahoma oil and Pittsburgh machine tools. Not even her warmest admirers, who liked her liveliness, would credit her with overwhelming charm or notable wit. But ambassadors, Senators and Cabinet officers come at her beck. In a city where a hostess' success can be scored like points in a cribbage game by counting up the rank of her guests, Perle Mesta outscores them all. Unlike her predecessors, Perle Mesta won her position not by prestige and not alone...