Word: warmness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Rowed over the Rochester course today to prepare for tomorrow's race with a last minute lineup change. Weather is warm and humid with a little breeze. The river is narrow and winding and our coxswain is constantly telling us when a buoy is coming up under our riggers, which is annoying as hell, but I guess it beats unexpectedly hitting a buoy that throws off your stroke. After launching off their wobbly plastic docks, we went upstream to the starting line doing some 20s at 3/4 pressure, 22 and 28 strokes per minute. Then we turned around and headed...
...think people like our new number," Platov said. "Usually people are pretty warm in these kinds of shows...
...George W. Bush gave his own party a carefully placed thwack--saying the G.O.P. is too often dour, obsessed with wealth and indifferent to the "human problems that persist in the shadow of affluence"--he managed to do a few tricky things at once. He got credit for being warm and caring and optimistic while distancing himself not just from congressional Republicans but from Washington itself--all by trumpeting the success he and other G.O.P. Governors have had reducing crime, welfare dependency and the like. "Something unexpected happened on the way to cultural decline," he said. "Problems that seemed inevitable...
...invitations to a charity sale that offered more than the evanescent pleasure of a $10,000 lunch. It gave guests the opportunity to buy a shahtoosh, a shawl that justifies its name, "King of Wool," by reputedly being both light enough to pass through a wedding ring and warm enough to hatch a pigeon's egg. "Shahtooshes are so utterly tightly woven of this wonderful, thin wool," enthuses Kempner. "We started wearing them when people were harassed about wearing...
...They sure are heavy! They're made of concrete. Wary of causing collateral damage (that's military-speak for murdered civilians) that could lead to international sympathy for Saddam Hussein, the U.S. has opted for dropping friendlier, 2,000-lb., laser-guided bombs on military targets. We've tried warm-and-fuzzy wartime techniques before, like when we blasted MANUEL NORIEGA's compound with loud rock music. Once, the CIA considered a plot to make Fidel Castro's hair fall out by putting thallium powder in his boots. The Army also fed unsuspecting U.S. soldiers with...