Word: warmness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...warm summer day in the hills of northern Transylvania. There is little traffic on the road, a strip of patched macadam that bisects the valley and climbs slowly through the trees to disappear in the direction of the Hungarian border. A pair of covered Gypsy wagons comes into view, each pulled by a stocky horse. As the wagons draw abreast, the driver of the first lifts his hat and waves. The second driver has stretched out and gone to sleep, the reins held loosely in hands clasped over his ample stomach...
...always, Mama saw to it that everyone was fed, made sure that Father wore a clean white shirt, put everything in its proper place -- all with a warm, ; ready smile on her round face. She acted as if no catastrophe had occurred: the Central Committee had simply made another decision, in this case involving the dismissal of her husband, and she accepted it as she had accepted so many others. After all, she wasn't just his wife but a party member, and democratic centralism's dictates about subordination from top to bottom had become second nature to her. Once...
Barricading streets, burning cars and tossing petrol bombs are mostly summer events, when there are anniversaries to commemorate, school is out and nights are warm. It's a time when the air of Belfast is thin with the promise of excitement, and mothers pray for rain. "The lads don't go out and fight as much when it's raining," says Betty, 33. Four of her five brothers have done time, and her three sons are all adept at making petrol bombs. Even the six- year-old, whose forehead is blackened by a burn mark he got while making...
Today: Variable clouds, becoming breezy, high 70 to 75. Southwest wind increasing to 15 to 25 mph. Tonight: Mostly cloudy with a 30 percent chance of showers, low 55 to 60. Tomorrow: Partly sunny and warm, high around...
...existentialism. "It was like home to us," Jean-Paul Sartre once said, and Simone de Beauvoir wrote part of The Second Sex here. One good reason is that the Flore has a rather secluded second floor, where one can work in peace; another is that the Flore always stayed warm...