Word: warmly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tall, erect, blond, young man of severely military carriage and aristocratic mien, was invited to a garden party at one of the most sumptuous villas of which modern Rome can boast. There he was introduced to a slight, dark-eyed girl olive-skinned, graceful as a faun, warm with the lambent inner radiance of the Italian heart...
...vacant pate and beneath the heads of three companions who lay beside him on the scaffold in that charnel house. Woven in patterns of concentric circles of different colors, these textures had to be sketched quickly before their 2,000-year-old fibres crumbled in the warm outer...
...hour before dawn, two winds met. One was moist and warm, the other cold and dry. Comingled ? the warm wind climbing the front of the cold ? they became a single ferocity which shot upwards pummelling, as it went, the Shenandoah, U. S. Navy dirigible...
Ferocity ? warm wind climbing up the front of cold ? pumelled the splitting smooth-skinned bulk. The ship's nose?in itself a mountain was torn completely from the body. Carrying seven men, including three who had left the control-cabin, it began to spin. Those of the seven who were not desperately engaged in keeping their seats astride a girder, valved gas as freely, as quickly as they could. The lost mountain spinned ? earthward. Nearing ground, Chief Machinist Halliburton fired shot into the gas envelope. Through the twilight, a farmer was signalled, caught a guide-rope, wrapped...
...faith. Lansdowne declared, not one, but many times, that dirigibles could be built to withstand any storm, that the Shenandoah was so built. But he told his wife-before his last trip that the one thing which could break the ship was the line-squall?the conflict of warm and cold shafts of air, pressing from below and above. He knew that such storms occurred near the locality where he was killed, for at Greenfield, Ohio, he was born 37 years...