Word: warms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...irritated and stormed that he would not do the Kennedy family's bidding. He declared that the vice presidency was a worthless job compared with being Senate leader, related the sad tenure of "Cactus Jack" Garner, who had called the office nothing more than a "pitcher of warm spit," and said Speaker Sam Rayburn had told him to stay far away from it. If he could not be President, he would stay in the Senate, Johnson had told me with such rage and finality -- his nose an inch from mine -- that I chalked...
...latest creation, titled Bess' Sunrise, Textile Artist Maya Romanoff adorned the building with 28 brightly colored canvas strips, each 6 ft. wide and 120 ft. long. Suspended from the seventh-floor terrace and hanging down to the edge of the Chicago River, the work offers a billowing spectacle of warm yellow-oranges and radiant blue- greens...
...back of the hands that Steffi was making in rising up from her bland opening set to take nine of ten games going away. Tellingly, during the recess, Navratilova sought hurried treatment for a complaining leg muscle while Graf sprawled like a teenager in front of the TV. "Bodies warm up easier at 19 than they do at 31," sighed the woman finished off (5-7, 6-2, 6-1) by the girl...
...with a functioning letter R on its keyboard will overwhelm high literary principle. When that happens, he implies, it is O.K. to respond favorably to the mail's more dubious propositions -- to adapt a classic for television, for example, or address an academic conference (especially if its venue is warm and equipped with Jacuzzis). He draws the line only at concocting advertising copy, and offers one ironclad rule: form a partnership with a first-class Writer's Wife. His own, he notes, "looks after reality for me while I am absent from it, which I am most of the time...
...says, I'm beginning to understand something now. I think I know why you're here. Yes. I know why you're here. You're on a fishing expedition. You're hunting for material. Am I getting warm? Am I right...