Word: warmth
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...more names to that list: Thatcher and Reagan." Thatcher broke up Reagan with several quips, including her lament that, despite sharing the same goals, she could not imitate his "wonderful American English accent, 'You ain't seen nothing yet.' " But the Prime Minister also poignantly captured the warmth between the two countries. Noting that people often asked her what the special relationship between Britain and the U.S. meant, Thatcher said she always replied, "It is special. It just is. And that's that." The clinking of glasses filled the room...
...combination of federal pressure and a new challenge to family discipline by Mafia underlings and independent bookies has led to three Mob executions since Jan. 10. Investigators contend that the murders were sanctioned by four aging Windy City Mafia chieftains as they spent the Christmas season in the warmth of a Palm Springs, Calif., retreat. The four, according to investigators, were Accardo, 79, the longtime Chicago boss, who suffers from cancer and heart trouble; Joseph Aiuppa, 77, the operating chief, who has a bad heart and is rumored to suffer from throat cancer; John (Jackie) Cerone, 70, the Chicago underboss...
...Grabs is a story of rapacity and gall told with bemused admiration for the waves of visionaries and scamps who have left their mark on the Sunshine State. "All our lies would turn out to be true," says a veteran developer who bet that dreams of warmth and leisure would prevail over miasmal realities. Florida's first land barons dredged canals and transformed muck into pay dirt. Huge damp swaths of the stuff were then subdivided and merchandised as paradise. Georgia Poet Sidney Lanier was hired to lure frostbitten Northerners with seductive publicity, and William Jennings Bryan was paid...
...HUNDRED AND first Harvard-Yale football game was played on a very cold day. At half-time, deciding that self-preservation was a higher duty than school loyalty. I left the jey bleachers of Soldiers Field for the comfort and warmth of the Quincy House Junior Common Room, where I settled in with a dozen other refugees from Antarctica to watch our boys blow the most important game of the season. That's right, I watched them on television, just as if they were a "real college" like USC or Notre Dame...
...Schubert's ineffable "Trout" Quintet, so named for its use of the composer's song The Trout as the basis of the fourth movement, is one of the glories of the chamber-music repertory, beloved of pianists and string players (and audiences) everywhere for its grace, wit and warmth. Ax's sensitive, full- toned pianism and the Guarneri's rich ensemble are perfectly matched here, to each other and to the piece. Some readings of the "Trout" emphasize its sparkle and brio, but this one favors a relaxed elegance: it is less a day at the beach than a month...