Word: warmly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...letter to Ike Eisenhower, Kentucky's May had urged a special investigation because "his father is one of my warm personal friends." General Waitt, who had also frolicked through the Garssons' Hotel Pierre wedding reception (TIME, July 29), delivered the letter in person, and looked into the matter himself...
...inevitably as warm weather breeds poliomyelitis, polio breeds panic. This year's epidemic, now nearing its peak, is bad-50% greater than last year-and worst since 1934 (latest federal statistics); San Antonio, Denver and Minneapolis have been especially hard hit. But the U.S. Public Health Service has pointed out that the cases (2,596 so far) are scattered, and that the epidemic seems unlikely to take on menacing proportions...
Boundaries. Again the man in possession called the tune. From Finland, Russia is to get the warm water port of Petsamo and a lease on the Baltic naval base at Porkala; from Rumania, 79,300 square miles of Bessarabia. Other shifts in the Balkans give Transylvania back to Rumania, southern Dobruja to Bulgaria. The British and French gain at the expense of Italy: the Dodecanese Islands go to British-controlled Greece; the communes of Briga and Tenda and other bits of the Italian Alps go to France. But Italy is allowed to keep the South Tyrol over Austrian protest. Trieste...
...their own value and the prices they were asking were outrageous. To show brotherhood, my baggage was distributed by the discharged sailor, who took the heaviest piece himself along with all his own; and the trek began. It was cold and muddy and miserable, but the psychological atmosphere was warm and stimulating...
...buster's problem: how to make a machine that approaches the power of a cosmic ray bullet. The most powerful machine in existence (General Electric's betatron) develops 100 million electron volts. Physicists now aim at one billion volts. The big news at Berkeley: they are getting warm...