Word: warmly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Gone is the blackout. Gone are the curfews. Gone are the sleepless nights spent in cellars. The air is free. The sun is warm and bright. The people of the land are free people...
...Warm Week. But the whole thing opened again with a bang with Columnist Pegler's disclosures. The almost forgotten rearguard action which A. & P. has been fighting with the U.S. Government became front-page news again. Last week A. & P. and its public relations firm of Carl Byoir & Associates were sweating through a federal trial in Danville, Ill., charged with violation of the Sherman Antitrust Act. John Hartford, home in Valhalla, N.Y., sweated through a golf game, spluttered: "I'll have to talk to my lawyer...
...Canada's campaigns are dull and dreary, highly moral and a fearful bore. . . . Perhaps it has something to do with our climate. The cold of Canada freezes the warm blood of our whimsy and freezes the warm phrase on our lips before it can be heard. The unthinking man will say that this is all to the good, that politics here is kept on a high plane of dignity and decorum. . . . On the contrary, politics, in our cold, undiluted form, bore us so much that . . . often politicians can hardly get a meeting together. . . . One prominent candidate found himself addressing...
...heavy, but not uniformly so; fighter opposition on most recent assaults has been light. But in the drive to knock out Japan's industry, the B-29s will now face a new enemy: weather. Between June and September, eastern Japan's rainiest season, the air will be warm, moist and thick with clouds. Inevitably, more bombing will have to be done by instruments and will be correspondingly less accurate, but there will be no lightening of the bomb loads...
...chiffon nightie. (Linen sheets to go with the nighties could be had, by rare good luck, for $50 a pair; cotton sheets required a priority granted only to newlyweds or families recently bombed out.) They preferred to spend coupons on the less alluring "woolies" which kept them warm in unheated offices and homes. For the same reason, woolen underwear was scarcer...