Word: warmness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Friends agreed, saying Harvard was a warm and accommodating classmate...
Relations between planted and host churches are often not as warm as either side would like. "The interaction is not really close," says Frantz Sanon, pastor of the Haitian congregation. "We always seem to meet in a rush." This is partly by design--a half-hour gap between the two services cuts down on chance encounters in the chapel, which nobody really seems to want. Language can also be a barrier. "My congregation can't understand him even when he speaks English," jokes the Rev. William Doubek of his Vietnamese counterpart. Moreover, different denominations cannot worship together. "If we were...
...arts editor of TIME magazine from 1974 to 1989 and subsequently as a senior writer and critic, she was always gentle and generous but never one to mince words when she felt a piece of writing fell short of her standards. Her praise for sharp thinking was warm and inspiring, and her critiques of fuzzy stories were softened by wry humor and kindness. When movie critic Richard Corliss, new to the magazine in 1980, submitted the beginning draft of his first cover story to Martha, she responded, "The first three paragraphs are O.K. The fourth one had better sing...
...than the outside of a horse," Reagan, 86, recently made a rare public appearance at a polo match between Santa Monica and Brentwood, played at Will Rogers State Historic Park in Pacific Palisades, Calif. And although he had to be guided around by helpers, it was clear from the warm greetings he received that no matter what, nobody had forgotten...
...city of Roswell, N.M. (pop. 49,000), is the birthplace of Demi Moore. It is also home to the nation's largest mozzarella plant. On warm spring nights, visitors deplaning onto the tarmac at the local airport may be struck, in a not necessarily unpleasant way, by the rich, manurelike odor rolling in from the surrounding ranchlands. But none of these things is what Roswell is most famous...