Word: warmth
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Pleasant associations flood my mind as I think of my dear treat. Ice cream reminds me of summer, my favorite season. I love the warmth of the sun; nature is stunning during the summer months. Summer is the season of freedom--from school, heavy clothing and colds. Ice cream is the quintessential food of summer. Eating ice cream allows me to literally taste summer as I snack in my kitchen or my dorm room...
...climate record shows that the whole 8,000-year span of human civilization, from the dawn of cities to space flight, has taken place during a period of extraordinary warmth and stability. The past 150 years, which have seen the industrial and information ages, have been even more remarkably clement. The experience has left humanity with the notion that climate is warm and stable. But those who look at the past know different. "Climate is an angry beast," says Lamont's Wallace Broeker, "and we are poking it with sticks...
Though the supertitles were easy to follow, sometimes the translations were weak. "Oh what a pleasant warmth runs through me," the English ran for one of Nemorino's declamations. "Perhaps she feels the same flame." Likewise, to translate two ultra-colorful words, "buffone" and "ragazzo," both as "fool," seemed unimaginative. It was more rewarding to listen to the mellifluous Italian than to fix one's eyes on the words above the stage...
...Harvard baseball team traveled to sunny South Florida for its spring break last week. Unfortunately, the Crimson did not spend much of its time basking in the warmth and sunshine...
...affection. In Frankie's, it is an arms dealer (Treat Williams, slithering from smooth menace to surprisingly vicious sadism) who tests his nerve--and to a degree his commitment to his cause. Frankie can't help contrasting the dank underworld he is obliged to work in with the cozy warmth of the O'Mearas' house...