Word: warmups
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...socially impeccable Boston family, and became a reporter for the Boston Transcript, the New York Herald Tribune (and a stringer correspondent for TIME). Among his assignments: covering the conventions of 1924, 1928 and 1932, accompanying Calvin Coolidge's pacification expedition to Nicaragua, interviewing Mussolini. After a four-year warmup in the state legislature, Cabot Lodge was ready in 1936 to try for a national political career, and although his Democratic opponent for the Senate, the late James Michael Curley, belittled his youth and called him "Little Boy Blue," Lodge, at 34, won an easy victory. In his grandfather...
...probe's receiver heard it. responded dutifully by allowing a half-strength electric current to flow through the filaments of the big transmitter's tubes. After this initial warmup, the apparatus was rested for six hours to recharge the batteries...
...trip was the latest move in a slow warmup of relations with Russian Orthodoxy that has been going on since the World Council's Evanston Assembly in 1954. The makeup of the World Council's delegation to Russia was well designed to disprove any lingering notions Moscow's Patriarch Alexis might have that the W.C.C. was "a political tool of Western imperialism." Under the leadership of World Council General Secretary Willem Visser 't Hooft (Dutch Reformed), the delegation consisted of: British Anglican Francis House; U.S. Lutheran Dr. O. Frederick Nolde, director of the W.C.C...