Word: warmness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Fireless Cooker. In Pacoima, Calif., arrested on suspicion of shoplifting a dressed chicken, Gene Woods explained that he put the bird under his shirt to keep it warm...
Last February Neuberger returned to the Senate after a gallant, five-month struggle with cancer (TIME, Feb. 16). True to the unpredictable Morse code, Neuberger's friend-turned-enemy offered "a very warm welcome and assurance of our sincere pleasure over the fact that my colleague has returned...
...reason to hope that wrongdoing may even be healthful. So they tyrannize each other, gloat over signs of decrepitude in contemporaries, stir the ashes and the urns of old loves with gossip. One septuagenarian lady runs a profitable blackmailing business, and an old eccentric whose blood is still faintly warm manages, at 87, to be more venereous than venerable; he pays cash for the titillating sight of gartered female legs. Most outrageous: ah amateur geriatrician, himself 79, who gathers data by digging up bad news, mailing it to friends, and asking them to check their pulse rates...
...applying his logician's mind to the problems of heavy industry. Reserved in manner, quiet in speech, he runs Big Steel's $3.7 billion empire and its 230,000 employees with an almost academic air. "Blough," says one steelman, "is a real, warm, likable IBM machine." Unlike former Chairman Benjamin Fairless, who thought one of the ways to labor peace was to tour plants with Union Boss David McDonald, Blough believes in separation of management and labor. Grouses one union leader: "Blough is a man you don't get to know much about. He stays...
...crippled ancients and the courage of the lonely, ridiculous African. The story ends with a clink and a gurgle. "Our faces glowing with liquor, our eyes more flashing, our tongues volubly tripping and repeating, we had great concert of talk and narrative, admiring ourselves and one another with warm, welcoming, smiling, appreciative, comradely, rosy hearts. We talked of motor engines and Henry Ford, of poith?n and the fairy fire, of famous poachers and deeds of blood and all the subtle stratagems of the Gael...