Word: warmly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...foehn* is a warm, dry wind that tumbles, sometimes with landslide suddenness, down the northern slopes of the Bavarian Alps. In winter and early spring, as it sweeps across Bavaria, it melts the snow and brings to the landscape a strange, bluish haze. German mountain-folk hold to an ancient belief that the foehn also brings sickness and melancholia in its blast...
...School and a nursery for foundlings. My daughter Margrethe, I am told, is going to be the Virgin Mary in the Shanghai American school's Christmas pageant. Still, for all the mellow effort we foreigners in China will make to honor the tinsel and holly tradition within our warm little family groups, I think no Christmas ever seemed to hold less prospect of cheer or promise. It isn't a reporter's Christmas in China this year...
...Communist-bossed C.G.T. (TIME, Dec. 22), last week called an "extraordinary national conference" in Paris. Some 250 delegates crowded into a bare, smallish meeting hall on the Left Bank. Pouchy old Léon Jouhaux, Socialist co-secretary-general of the C.G.T., sat near a radiator to keep warm. He wore a grey sweater under his blue suit, and a grey hat pulled over his eyes. Old Léon has a bad heart and he looked tired...
...shepherds offered their cloaks to the Madonna for blankets, begging her not to be offended by the goat smell. Then one of them turned to the audience, and exclaimed: "Think how the Blessed Virgin had not so much as a bed or sack to protect her, nor fire to warm the icy air, and that the Lord of the world had neither mattress nor cushion on which...
...along the slopes beside the Appian Way. All the cafes were supposed to be tight shut. Some were, but near by was always another with its steel shutters invitingly half open. A bunch of youthful Communists, chilled by the biting wind, entered a bar in the Piazza Cavour to warm themselves with scab-brewed coffee, then rushed at a smaller bar across the square to force its shutters down...