Word: warmly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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During his 16 years in Los Angeles, short, sharp-eyed Benny the Meatball grew chubby and genial and almost quit carrying a rod. Los Angeles was paradise for a wrong gee with the right connections. The sun was warm, suckers in dark glasses stood under every palm tree, and the cops obligingly kept Eastern hoods out of town...
...once-favored Composer Dmitri Shostakovich. Loudly hailed as "a triumph of our great victory" at its premiere, Shostakovich's Ninth Symphony was described last week by the Central Committee's Culture and Life as a "playful and fanciful trifle . . . sharp and screaming" and hopelessly lacking in "warm, ideological conviction." It was probably, conceded the young composer's critic charitably, the fault of undue influence by expatriate Russian Composer Stravinsky, "an artist without a fatherland or deep ethical principles." But jilted Genius Shostakovich, hard at work on an opera crammed with ideology, declined an offer to conduct...
...Departments, bases in Greenland and Okinawa. ¶ The abandonment of the U.S. atomic-control plan in favor of something more like Russia's counterproposal, which would give Russia atomic power without necessarily subjecting her to international scrutiny. ¶ The abandonment of U.S. resistance to Russian attempts to "obtain warm-water ports and her own security system in the form of 'friendly' neighboring states...
...could go To cities like Omaha and St. Joe. Hoixer Hall maintained that he was moved to confession by "twinges of conscience." He deserved more twinges for quoting, to their present shame, the past happy squeals of critics. Sample, from Poet-Critic Paul Engle (American Song): "There is so warm a feeling of validity about these verses, and so accurate a sense of individual character that their impact is far stronger than a simple amusement at childish simplicity...
...faculty men who left for war service, Professor Elliott was delighted to meet "a fresh group of people who have never heard my jokes." Upperclassmen may have been familiar with some of the legends, but the predominantly freshman audience gave them warm greeting...