Word: cool
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Scotland, quick-thinking Laborite Herbert Morrison did his dauntless best to recapture party dignity with a cool last word: "Through the good work of the Labor Government all God's children look much the same...
...Cool-eyed Conchita Cintron, 26, the world's top woman bullfighter got the cold shoulder in Mexico. She flew into Mexico City, ran smack into opposition from the local bullfighters' union: their ring, where she had wrung oles from the crowds eight years ago, was now no place for a woman. Back in 1940, Peru's Conchita had airily remarked that Mexican bulls were passable, but not nearly fierce enough to suit her taste...
Blue-Ribbon Juries. But even the cool and collected Medina had not been able to keep proceedings on the track. They were still in the pretrial stage when the Communists engineered a legal collision which confounded confusion. They challenged the whole system of picking "blue-ribbon" juries. If they were right, then both the grand jury, which had handed down the indictment, and the panel from which the trial jury was to be chosen would be without legal authority. Medina settled himself stoically while the defense lawyers talked that...
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...pines snagged the plane's wings. The C82 lurched, crashed, burst into flames. Pilot Kilpatrick and two crewmen died in their seats. A pilot instructor and a lieutenant observer got out. Cool-headed Sergeant Hodgkiss also tumbled out, unhurt. Said he of his thoughts in the few seconds before the crash, "I just sat there and thought about my wife, Pearl Lucille. We've only been married nine months...