Word: warmest
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Khrushchev's own manners were no help. At a special performance of The Magic Flute by the Vienna State Opera, he dozed off to sleep, an amazing affront to opera-loving Viennese. And next day, when Communist-led workers in an automobile factory gave him the warmest reception of the trip, Nikita turned beaming braggart. "I am like the merchant who comes to the market with a bag full of goods," he said. "I can say to all of you: Wrap up all your goods and send them to us. We can buy all of Austria." Nikita was just...
...ocean-bottom sediments, Rosholt and Emiliani estimate that the last warm interglacial Pleistocene period extended from 100,000 B.C. to 67,000 B.C., with its temperature peak coming about 93,000 B.C. Since the oldest skull fragments of Homo sapiens (true man) are believed to date from the warmest part of the last interglacial period, this date, 93,000 B.C., can be considered the provisional birth date of the human race...
...arrival in Manila from Alaska that President Eisenhower got the news from Japan. ¶In the span of those few hours, Ike's reception had been a blazing triumph, hailed by more than a million Filipinos, flower-laden girls, boisterous, cheering mobs, tons of gaily colored confetti-the warmest welcome he had received since his historic visit to India. Now hundreds of thousands of Filipinos gathered in Manila's bayside Luneta park for a civic reception. Ike and President Carlos Garcia were standing on the ramp of a concrete bandstand, reviewing a military parade. A U.S. Army Signal...