Word: warms
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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Giuliani denies he'll be getting all warm and fuzzy--"No way!" he vowed--but he has begun to serve up some uncharacteristic musings. Contemplating the illness, he said, "makes you think about what's important in life. It reminds you to think about what you should be thinking about." Then he gave a defiant laugh. "Do I have an answer yet? No!" Rudy will always be Rudy...
...might have been a growing population; another might have been political turmoil. The search for such exotic trade goods as furs and walrus ivory might have also been a factor. The timing, in any event, was perfect: during the 9th century, when the expansion began, the climate was unusually warm and stable. Pastures were productive, and the pack ice that often clogged the western North Atlantic was at a minimum...
Instinct," in its human applications, can be a fighting word. Prefaced with "maternal," it's often deployed as a warm-up for the old "barefoot and pregnant" prescription for feminine fulfillment. In fact, if motherhood is a mindlessly instinct-driven occupation, why bother with feet at all? In their zeal to reduce women to reproductive devices, the ancient Chinese eliminated the female foot, at least as a means of locomotion. More recently, in 1981, a male biologist implied in the esteemed journal Science that human females evolved to stand upright long after males did because what did females have...
...cashmere," is projecting sales this year of $24 million, up from $16 million in 1999. Its success is echoed by brands such as Juicy Couture, Michael Stars, James Perse and Jet, all based in and around Los Angeles, a veritable T-shirt laboratory thanks to the area's warm weather, relaxed approach to fashion and body-proud residents eager to show off well-toned torsos...
...early '60s, when the Stars and Bars was raised in defiance of new civil rights laws. And Powell's son Michael married a white woman--a practice well outside Bob Jones' newly abandoned edict against interracial dating. Recently it has been Bush's former rival that Powell has warm feelings for, praising JOHN MCCAIN for his mea culpa over the South Carolina flag issue...