Word: warmness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...same time as Wendell, was quite different from his bearded colleague. Possessed of a slow deep voice, he had "nothing of the showman about him--he didn't need to have." He had, Douglas Bush recalled at Perry's death in 1954, "bright blue eyes, a slow smile, a warm and selfless concern with literature and things humane." Perry wrote one of the first favorable biographies extant of Walt Whitman, and edited the Atlantic Monthly for almost ten years...
Turkish official circles were warm in praise of Dulles' statement that the United States must be on guard against a possibility of Soviet aggression...
Orchid-Bedecked. Last week as Charlie Wilson said his goodbyes, Washington realized something else: it was saying goodbye to a distinguished Defense Secretary. President Eisenhower wrote a warm "Dear Charlie" letter, took time out from the Little Rock crisis to show up briefly at a black-tie dinner given in Wilson's honor by Secretary Dulles. The three service Secretaries and Chiefs of the Air Force, Navy, Army and Marine Corps stood up beside Charlie at Fort Myer as jet bombers and fighters roared by in an honorary flyover. And-perhaps in the most meaningful salute of all-newsmen...
Unfortunately, the CCA is not as strong and constructive a force as it could be. The hot appointments issue obscures the fact that the association has nothing else hot--and little that is particularly warm--on either its city council or school committee platform. It advocates urban renewal, which is proceeding nicely anyway, and offers other suggestions which are fairly obvious and seem to be generally agreed upon by both CCA and anti-CCA candidates...
...continued his journey a month later, he was still weak but in fine spirits. For the rest of his tumultuous life (before his death in 1788 he came to an uneasy rest halfway between Anglicanism, which he never renounced, and his brother's Methodism) Charles Wesley remembered the warm reception of his preaching in Boston. He praised the "prospect entirely new and beautiful" of the New England port, spoke highly of the congeniality and "the civility of the fellows" at Harvard College...