Word: warmly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...good wheat, and another bumper crop. Nature had been kind, but she had first tried men's nerves. There had been winter drought, even several dire days of dust storms. Then soaking rains and an abnormally warm March had sprouted the green shoots in a hurry (TIME, April 22). Then there was another dry spell and again the blessed rains, just in time...
These entries in the ledger gave the U.S. a warm sense of benevolence as it closed the books on July...
...Antonio, it was 94° in the shade. Lennart Strand, "Hägg's Rabbit," who had come over from Sweden to show U.S. runners how a mile should be run (TIME, June 17), didn't bother to warm up. "This heat," said he, "I don't like it." Under a sizzling sun he used the first quarter of the race (the National A.A.U. 1,500 meter) to unlimber, and his time for it was a sleepy 65.4 seconds...
...contract for the first U.S. appearance of Eva Prchlikova, a sensational young Czech soprano. An Army captain in Frankfurt who had heard her sing told Krueger about her, arranged a quick audition in an empty Army mess hall. She sang for two hours, scorned warm-up and launched confidently into the "Queen of the Night," Mozart's test-piece from The Magic Flute.* Krueger signed her on the spot...
...living room, paneled in something resembling oak, is a sink, a stove and a refrigerator, amounting to what real-estate merchants call a "kitchenette." The bedrooms run off the main room, and the bathroom, which contains, among other things, a shower, is discreetly hidden. The whole place is kept warm by a single circulatory kerosene heater, and a few of the tenants are wondering what's going to happen when winter comes...