Word: warmness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...warm spring morning in 1972, while the Viet Nam War raged abroad and caused dissension at home, an unlikely assortment of public figures gathered in Arlington National Cemetery to pay their final respects to a man very few Americans had ever heard of. Secretary of State William Rogers, Senator Edward Kennedy and conservative columnist Joseph Alsop were there, as were General William Westmoreland and Daniel Ellsberg, who was about to stand trial for leaking the Pentagon papers. They had come to mourn John Paul Vann, one of the nation's proconsuls in Viet Nam, who had died in a helicopter...
...most recent visit to the North End, I wandered around alone. It was one of those quintessential fall days--bright sun, red leaves, warm enough to meander through the streets for hours, but cold enough to have a twinge of pre-winter bitterness. Sometimes being alone is the best way to see a place; you can drink in everything without distractions, and you're free to imagine that you're someone or someplace else. And in this place it's easy to imagine yourself 100, 200, or even 300 years back...
...their wives, many of them members of the Adelines: "The Redwoods from N.Z. Are in Room 1109," "Alice and Albert, Have a Nice Day, John." At the souvenir tables, singers snatch up LPs by grand masters and $27 home-study tapes -- Theory of Harmony, How to Warm Up Your Voice. The camaraderie extends to the contest stage. The battle is to win, not to beat the other guy. " 'We' is the competition," notes a Chief of Staffer. No candy-shirted drunks around a barber pole at this convention. For the final rounds, the costuming is ingenious. Houston's Inns...
...tough leathery exterior, but inside he's warm and mushy--you put a pat of butter on top, and you're in business," he said...
...astronauts may be a bit warm on their 10,000-mile glide home; a cooling system problem has plagued most of the flight may still not be working...