Word: warmly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Mikhail Gorbachev needs this ruckus about as much as Custer needed more Indians. The Soviet President is already trying to cope with a sour national mood that is turning bitter amid steadily worsening shortages of meat, sugar, butter, salt, matches, soap and even warm winter clothing. Now tea, a beverage the Soviets consume in vast quantities, has suddenly disappeared from store shelves. Said a woman standing in line for lemons in Moscow: "They talk about the years of stagnation ((Gorbachev's term for the Brezhnev era)), but at least while we stagnated...
...didn't have our talk. We didn't have to. Fish rippled their phosphorescent stripes inside the tank. The water gurgled, always clean, always warm...
...this may give you the impression that M is nothing more than a hopeless space cadet, but she's really not. She is an intelligent, warm, funny, sensitive woman who, above all else, wants to be loved and wants to be able to control the visions haunting her. She wants someone to be with her, to help her face the slings and arrows of her outrageous fortune, but she finds herself "always alone with what I fear most--the sound of my memories...
...carbon dioxide from the cars and factories of industrial nations, the torching of the Amazon could magnify the greenhouse effect -- the trapping of heat by atmospheric CO2. No one knows just what impact the buildup of CO2 will have, but some scientists fear that the globe will begin to warm up, bringing on wrenching climatic changes...
...where touring Brazilian dancers are showing French vacationers how to thrust their stuff. But is the lambada just this summer's hype? "It will become a classic," declares singer Loalwa Braz. "And it will be even more agreeable to dance in the winter. It's a way to keep warm...