Word: warmest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Colonel. Danny Kaye's warmest and very nearly funniest movie, about a gentle, ingenious refugee escaping one jump ahead (and occasionally one jump behind) the Nazi invasion of France...
...Remotely controlled mechanical hands that struck a match were "symbolic," for "one day an inventor might put together a machine aimed at destruction, and might be tempted to try it. This we should stop in time." In the Hungarian pavilion, a panorama of Budapest called up Voroshilov's warmest memories: "What a beautiful city, what a beautiful country! But such foolish things have happened there. Some people have called it counterrevolution; some called it revolution. I think it was just foolishness. Perhaps it would have been possible not to give Imre Nagy such a harsh sentence, because...
...your Congressman or your Senator or to your Governor, not to some schmo." He found the welcome warmest among politicians to whose campaigns he had contributed, and "always supported my friends as I could within my means." A sample of how hard he would work for "one of my very dear friends" came in the Massachusetts gubernatorial campaign of 1952. when Democratic Incumbent Paul A. Dever ("May God rest his soul") was being attacked by the Boston Post. Goldfine's simple effort: he extended a $400,000 line of credit to the paper's owner, capricious Boy Wonder...
...Yorker Staffer Brooks writes a clear reportorial style, so coolly equable that at times it scarcely reaches the room temperature needed to sustain living characters. He reserves his warmest affection for the lore of "The Street" itself, from Trinity's spire to the pockmarks preserved in the side of the Morgan bank from the 1920 bombing. The Street may be mildly amused to hear that it is a psychosocial arena of U. v. non-U., and that to the combatants, gaining acceptance is more important than capital gains. As far as Wall Street knows, the real hassle going...
...could be summoned," said he. The British seemed exhilarated by the prospect of a fresh Canadian voice in the Commonwealth family. To Diefenbaker as Prime Minister of the senior Dominion, and to Ghana's beaming Nkrumah, representing the newest member of the family, went the public's warmest cheers...