Word: warmness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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While those vacationing in states below the snow belt enjoyed unseasonably warm weather, heavy snow and rain in the Northwest and Midwest forced some Harvard students to alter their plans...
...diplomats say he has never strayed from Washington's instructions and has a knack for finding a warm spot in even the surliest of despots. He always reads the history and psychological profile of his potential adversary. He knew that one of Kerubino's daughters had just died of measles, so when talks with the chieftain became heated, Richardson took a break and strolled over to a nearby hut to visit one of Kerubino's other children, who also had measles. "It touched him," Richardson says...
...knee-jerk tendency at year's end is to look back and decry the 12 months at hand as the most dismal, most indicative of civilization's downward arc since, well, the 12 months before this. 1996, with enough depressing cultural offerings to warm a pessimist's heart, may not change a Scrooge's mind on this score. Perhaps 1996 will even be remembered as the year of the somewhat desperate exclamation point: That Thing You Do! Suddenly Susan! Lamar...
...telecasts of the Olympic gymnastics. A cross between Barney the Dinosaur and Fabio, Tesh said things like, "It was the U.S. who had the key, soaring through the rarefied air, newly baptized in the fire of Olympic competition." At one point he cautioned, "There's something in the warm summer air tonight, can you feel it?" Yes, it was a blast of hot air from a himbo who knew what had happened at events taped that afternoon. E.T., take him home...
...might expect there to be more than a few grumbles from players upset about the prospect of missing so much vacation time, not to mention that none of the teams traveling this December is going anywhere remotely warm...