Word: warmest
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...coldest students from the warmest climates also have parents who live the farthest away...
...leading 3-0 in the second set when Martinez called a time-out for a muscle injury. The delay seemed to break Navratilova's concentration, but she held on to win the set, 6-3. In the decisive third set, however, younger legs prevailed 6-3. But the warmest cheers after the match belonged to the runner-up, who magnanimously allowed Martinez a solo turn around her court with the trophy. Pausing as she left the stadium, Navratilova stooped and picked a tuft of turf as a last memento. "I wasn't so splendorful today," she said. And was this...
While America gave Rhinoceros its warmest reception anywhere, critics and audiences seemed to misunderstand it as light comedy. To Ionesco, it was a brutal metaphor for what happened in Romania under fascism and communism. In a journal dated "around 1940," he wrote, "The police are rhinoceroses. The judges are rhinoceroses. You are the only man among the rhinoceroses. The rhinoceroses wonder how the world could have been led by men. You yourself wonder: Is it true that the world was led by men?" The horror behind this question never left. Ionesco's jokes were those of nearly all the 20th...
...cage, three monkeys grouse at their typewriters, condemned to stay there till one of them pounds out Hamlet. A fellow at a restaurant can never get what he wants unless he orders something else, because he is in a twilight funk called "a Philadelphia." In The Universal Language, Ives' warmest, newest sketch, a woman with a speech impediment enrolls in a course for a jabberwocky tongue that only she and her teacher speak: English is "John Cleese," stammering is "tongue Stoppard...
...have absolute confidence in them," he said. "Mrs. D'Andria is one of the finest persons I have ever met. This is a woman that has the warmest heart and [is] the most sincere woman...She fascinates me because she's hard on people but very motherly...