Word: warmness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...This game was an excellent warm-up for [a Tuesday showdown against Ivy favorite] Brown," Alissi finished...
...vast sweep of Russia's steppes and forests induced "a ghastly feeling of imperturbable calm and deep sleep, of loneliness conducive to abstract, sad musing without any clearly defined thought." Russians seem so overwhelmed by the sheer enormousness of their country that they would rather settle down by a warm stove, break out a bottle of vodka and muse about life than go out and plow a furrow toward the endlessly receding horizon. A leading Moscow architect maintains that this sense of the horizontal is so strong in Russian minds that it is hard to find a straight vertical line...
...scene was repeated from Texas to Ohio and Maryland as the freak storms, caused by a southerly dip in the jet stream that slammed cold Canadian air against warm, moist air from the Gulf of Mexico, zigzagged across the Southeast. High winds tossed a school bus full of children off a road in North Carolina (five kids and the driver were admitted to a hospital) and tore the steeple from a Georgia church as the congregation sang Amazing Grace. Still, in Florence, Mississippi, fate smiled on a six-day-old girl, ripped from her father's arms when a twister...
Student activism need not approach the politically-charged issues of naval blockades, peace-keeping forces or U.N. resolutions. Non-partisan humanitarian efforts to prevent genocide should take high priority. The Harvard Islamic Society, with the assistance of Harvard-Radcliffe Hillel, recently completed a valiant effort to collect warm clothing from students--clothing that will help refugees trapped in besieged cities survive the winter months...
...Black and one Negro. I hardly thought that would do. I leaned across the table and put the question to Malcolm. Without hesitation he replied that although in general he did not like the word Negro, he found that often it was quite useful. With a warm smile, he suggested that...