Word: cool
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Toronto, Ont., tens of thousands of sportsfolk and natives last week strained and scrambled to get a look at 45 thickly greased women, some with sketchy swimming suits, some with none, as they dove into the cool waters of Lake Ontario, swam away around a two-mile rectangular course. Before the first lap was circled. Swimmer Vivian Lee Welsh screamed, thrashed, floundered in the water. A large lamprey eel had fastened its horny teeth into her side. Shuddering with fright, writhing with cramps, she was lifted into a Red Cross rescue boat. At the end of the first lap Martha...
...mother's friend, was a cool blonde 24 years older than Chéri. When Léa invited the youth to come with her to the country he brought along his Renouhard runabout, saying, "I'll pay for the gasoline but youll pay for the chauffeur's meals." Through their subsequent seven-year amour, Léa remained in Chéri's eyes no more than a means to his own pleasure, unmixed with tenderness. Result: noticing Léa's age in her face after a short separation, he left her as he would a cage, returning to his young wife...
...Cumana, Venezuela, last week, citizens smoked their evening cigarets along the water front, striving for a breath of cool air. A little tramp steamer, her name roughly painted out, chugged into the harbor, noisily dropped her mud hook. Small boats were put out, rowed ashore. Boxes and crates were landed on the beach. From Cumana's fort an officer watched for a few minutes till he saw the fat barrel of a machine gun lifted out of a crate. Then hastily he threw away his cigaret, sounded the alarm...
...Moscow, telegrams from Soviet commanders on the Siberian-Manchurian frontier complained to Dictator Josef Stalin of provocative and belligerent raids by Chinese soldiers over the Russian frontier. Plainly the field commanders on both sides were spoiling for a declaration of war. But President Chiang and Dictator Stalin are both cool, calculating...
...storage battery room at the plant, and after a slight delay caused by New Englanders "Maine" and "Vermont" oversleeping, the papers were passed out. The hush that marked the first glance at the examination was gradually broken as the "brightest boys" began writing. A morning that had started cool grew increasingly hot and humid. Coats came off and sleeves were rolled up as the "49ers" worked in silence, five proctors quietly pacing between the desks. With tense expressions the boys labored over questions demanding exact, accurate answers, with puzzled, dreamy glances at the ceiling they tried to answer problems involving...