Word: warms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Under a warm sun, the crowd applauded and waved flags from around the world at the end of the service...
...much of the blame for the country's plight is placed on the contras. A wide assortment of Nicaraguans, even those most prone to complain about their circumstances, accept the government line that the U.S.-backed rebels are responsible for the destruction of schools, hospitals and the economy. The warm affection that most Nicaraguans feel for North Americans does not extend to the Reagan Administration, which Nicaraguans believe is preparing for an invasion of their country. "The U.S. military aggression," says Eric Ramirez, president of the opposition Social Christian Party, "gives oxygen for the Sandinistas to survive...
...After a warm-up match against University of the Pacific, the Crimson will take on sixth-ranked University of California at Berkley...
...gambling trip will pay the Christmas bills. They haven't budgeted for winning, but for how much they can afford to lose: from $30 to $2,000. (At least those are the figures they'll admit to.) Many of them say they are going to Vegas mainly to get warm. This is no doubt the reason why Mickey Koehler lugs $40 worth of quarters and $20 in dimes onto the plane--for the exercise. Still, the notion that just one of those dimes in the right slot machine could mean a bright red vintage MG isn't entirely incidental...
...Javits bid for the Senate seat of the retiring Herbert Lehman and carried the state against New York City Mayor Robert Wagner by 460,000 votes in 1956. His welcome in the Senate, whose clubby atmosphere then included more than a whiff of anti-Semitism, was less than warm. "When I rose to speak in those early days, the whole chamber was still," he later recalled. "Still and cold...