Word: warmly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...U.S.S.R., he said, that had dropped an iron curtain across Europe. Instead, it was itself cut off from the Middle East, western Europe and the Mediterranean "by an iron curtain dropped by the Western powers." Russia, he said, is "denied the atomic bomb, denied warm water outlets, denied the common courtesy of economic negotiations with her greatest ally. . . . [Russia] is suspicious . . . beset by many fears...
Bubbling with holiday spirits, the children dropped into their schools to ring the bells in gay derision or to gather around pianos and bang out American swing. In Dublin's green parks, sedate old pensioners and mooning poets basking in the warm spring sunshine suddenly found themselves uprooted to make way for football games. Back alleys echoed to the shouts of handball and toss-ha'penny players. The merrily rioting kids stopped politely to give their names and addresses when windows got broken. When one crowd tipped over a pushcart in Dublin's market district, another group...
...supplies in the food stores, bacons, sausages, cheese, eggs, homemade preserves in the farmers' larders, and plenty of warm, good clothing on German backs, including frequent fur coats. The Russian zone is far ahead of other zones as a going concern. This is the reason: the Russians know just what they want in Germany. The Western Allies continue to be vague and confused...
...Giono has little of Thoreau's warm passion for facts of nature, even less of his intellectual Puritanism. Born in 1895, at Manosque, Basses-Alpes, of French-Italian stock, Giono is essentially a nature-loving mystic. He is a teller of wry, earthy stories of the peasants in whom he professes to see the joy of the good life embodied. He has written about these people, sometimes bafflingly but always with zest and imagination, in The Song of the World, Harvest, and Joy of Man's Desiring...
This "superconductive bolometer" can register heat from a man's body 500 yards away in total darkness. If hitched to a proper scanning device, it makes a rough picture of any warm object. Dr. Andrews, who had himself "photographed" by the bolometer (see cut), thinks it will be useful in searching for heat leaks from buildings, is sure it has a future in medicine and astronomy. It might also have war possibilities, such as guiding an atom-armed rocket toward the warmth of a blacked-out city...