Word: warmest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Anthony Eden and his course of capitulation at Geneva, approval came from all quarters of the political spectrum, from Bevanites to Prime Minister Winston Churchill himself. But. except for the cries from the Bevanite left, even the loudest cheers had no note of jubilation, and the warmest congratulation betrayed a nagging suspicion that not peace, but trouble, lay ahead. Britain sighed in gratitude for a respite. Said the Times: "There is cause for deep thankfulness in the news about Indo-China. There cannot be joy." Said the News Chronicle: "You can do something constructive with peace. You can only...
...wild, 200-mile drive across Michigan, Dr. Small caught up with them at a beach cottage near Allegan. Jules was playing cards with two other men when Dr. Small entered the house. "Which one is Lack?" asked the dentist. "I'm Lack," said Big Jules, flashing his warmest smile and extending his gladhand. Then Dr. Small fired two bullets, and Lack dropped dead...
...promise that peasants who have received plots under the Arbenz land-reform law will get their titles outright; until now the government has retained the deeds, both to prevent resale and to keep political control over the farmers.* But the general reaction, even among Castillo's warmest backers, was one of sharp disappointment. They were hoping for a bold, positive program to rebuild the country's political and economic life so firmly that Communism could never rise again...
...school's turn to appeal. Lord Goddard, the Lord Chief Justice, heard the case last week. Two doctors told him that Eva had rheumatism, and ought to be kept warm. "But keeping warm has nothing to do with wearing slacks," boomed one judge. "One of the warmest garments is the kilt." Lord Goddard summed up: "Suppose some parents said they thought that in summer a child, in the interests of health, should go to school without clothes-what then? Would the headmistress be obliged to admit the child? The headmistress has the right and power to keep discipline." Spiers...
...Tear for Taxes. Lewis saved his coldest fury for his warmest subject, coal. "The coal industry," said he, "should be exporting 50 million tons of coal this year instead of a fraction of that amount. It would make the difference between reasonable employment and subnormal employment . . . We give Italy and France and Yugoslavia and the Low Countries money. They take that money and buy Czechoslovakian coal . . . Now there is no reason why [Japan] shouldn't get [coal] from the U.S. except that we don't have the aptitude to furnish the coal, so we give her money...