Word: cool
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Forward Jerry Murphy and guard Jim Downey ranked highest in the scoring department with 16 and 14 points respectively. Though he scored but eight points, Captain Bill Hickey was the key main in the victory. His cool, quick floor game set up most of the scoring opportunities...
...moved closer to them in spirit. In Greece, Athenian grey-marketeers renamed the street where they sell U.S. goods "Uncle Harry Street." Said a Tel Aviv newspaperman: "He is a simple human being, a man of the people. We would rather trust our fate to him than to the cool, calculating diplomats...
...attorney, William Marbury of Baltimore. He was subjected to questioning in connection with the slander suit which made him believe "that Hiss was determined to destroy me-and my wife, if possible." He went to his farm at Westminster, Md., waited for two days for his anger to cool...
...ceremoniously addressed each other as "Mr. Clothier," "Mr. Stotesbury" and "Mr. Morris." This formality extended even to the clerks. They were not permitted to smoke during banking hours, nor did they work in shirtsleeves. They seldom wanted to. The correct young men behind the counters were usually the same cool young bloods who danced at the Assemblies. "Joining Girard," as one employee said, "was like joining a good club...
...Navy, says Author Bradley, only admitted defeat when they found that they could not begin to "cool" a ship's exterior by a complete removal, by sandblasting, of every inch of paint, plus the planing off of a half-centimeter of all deck plank. And, to clinch matters, the Radiological Monitors found that even when radioactivity was not registering on ordinary instruments there might still be "free plutonium" present, the "most insidious poison known...