Word: warmth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...road-building materials and mechanization, marveled at superhighways, ogled multi-colored U.S. cars. Though few Pennsylvanians stopped to ogle back, the Poles were nevertheless important. Like another Polish delegation busy last week observing U.S. corn-raising techniques in Iowa, they were flesh-and-blood manifestations of a new warmth in U.S.-Polish relations...
...warmth was kindled a year ago when President Eisenhower and Secretary of State Dulles pledged that rebellious Poles and Hungarians could henceforth "draw on our abundance to tide themselves over the period of economic adjustment." Crushed by Russian tanks, the Hungarians were unable to take advantage of the U.S. offer. But the Poles, determinedly establishing themselves as the freest of Russia's satellites, could and did. To Washington came an economic delegation that negotiated an agreement for $95 million worth of U.S. aid and went home with the possibility of receiving even more. In addition, the U.S. eased restrictions...
After interviewing 384 Greater Boston housewives, they concluded that women who vote Democratic are "tender-minded" while Republican women are "tough-minded." The female Democrats "feel a social warmth in the people around them, and they feel much the same warmth in their own political party." The Republican women "appear to have the more self-oriented approach . . . They seem to have greater self-confidence and awareness of their own capacity." To them, the candidate's competence is the most important consideration; for Democrats, "the intellectual aspects" are most important-"thinking rather than doing, intention rather than action...
...Jacques Heim's fur-lined hems-ticklish, but more practical than fur garters for those who like warmth around the knees...
...mold for his wife to make cookies for his little daughter's birthday would have smiled at the thought. He was an artist nonetheless, a creator of images and stretcher of imaginations in the days before TV. And unlike commercial art or entertainment, what he made had the warmth of his hands upon...