Word: warmness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Lessons of Failure. When he entered the chamber of the House of Representatives, the assembly rose and gave him an unusually warm round of applause that lasted for nearly two minutes. As the President stood on the podium, he looked healthier than he had in many a month. His hair was a bit thinner and greyer, but an expensively tailored suit and a specially cut shirt collar helped give him a trim look. His manner was that of a man who had made up his mind to ignore outrageous slings and arrows and concentrate on the duties before...
...draft thanking the law professors for their statement on the student deferment were "perfunctory." These letters were formal acknowledgements and thanks, which is of course all that the occasion called for. Indeed, the letter from the executive director of the Commission went beyond what courtesy required in its warm expression of thanks. Charles Fried Professor...
...been letting our hair dryers run to keep the rooms warm," one girl shivered, "and we finally resorted to putting ads in the CRIMSON." The series of advertisements, which began appearing in the CRIMSON'S classified section last Monday, complained, "Cold, cold, cold," and pleaded, "Please Mrs. B. We need heat...
Navy will not field any notable individual players, but the Midshipmen are known as spirited fighters in good condition. Warm courts and screaming galleries usually annoy teams visiting Annapolis. Five years ago the Crimson played its last away contest with Navy under similar conditions, and lost...
...switched TV roles last week. Instead of appearing as the barbed interviewer, he played the part of the jolly, flippant gryphon in a performance of Alice in Wonderland. Since this modern, de-animalized version had Freudian overtones, the BBC declared it unsuitable for children under twelve. But Muggeridge won warm reviews anyway. "Mr. Muggeridge's whole life," wrote Geoffrey Moorhouse in the Guardian, "has been leading up to the evening when he would dance a dab-toed quadrille, before a carefully prepared audience, against a sky of gathering gloom...