Word: warmly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Solzhenitsyn, indeed, is a self-styled prophet of doom, and such pessimists are hardly used to warm receptions. But, unlike Biblical prophets, who reputedly spoke to all in their native tongues, this fails to translate very well to the West...
...think we established relationships of friendship. Since I first met him last July, we have exchanged between 25 and 30 personal messages. We had phone calls, we had long meetings together, and this last handwritten message, which Secretary of State Vance brought to me, is really written in warm terms of friendship, which is mutual...
Like a well-heeled tourist cashing in on the good will of the locals, China's Chairman Hua Kuo-feng seemed almost reluctant to end his sojourn in the Balkans. Both in Yugoslavia last week and Rumania the week before, the Chinese leader got a warm reception-and spent far more time per country than is customary for visiting heads of state. As if emboldened by the friendship he was finding at the Kremlin's doorstep, Hua missed no opportunity to cast calculated aspersions on Moscow. The Soviet press responded with a few choice phrases...
...George Meany has saddled the union movement with an unfortunate image. In what has to be the understatement of the year, Chaikin, an admirer of Meany, ruefully concedes that the AFL-CIO boss turns people off because, "he does not have the personality of an ever-smiling, ever-effusive, warm, merry-appearing man." One university expert on labor adds that Meany's performances on TV "must strike the 24-year-olds, a quarter of whom are college-educated, as something out of prehistoric ages...
...Librettist Stephen Oliver, 28. A second Duchess has simultaneously been staged at Wolf Trap Farm Park for the Performing Arts, outside of Washington, D.C., this one a world premiere by American Composer Stephen Douglas Burton, 35, and Librettist-Conductor Christopher Keene, 31. Strikingly different?one discordant, the other warm-bloodedly romantic?the two Duchesses show a growing divergence in modern music: between contemporary dissonances and a return to the romantic melodies of the Puccini...