Word: cool
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...shone warmly on the coral beaches. At night, the cool trade wind whispered through the palm trees. Harry Truman loafed. In the shaded seclusion of Key West's submarine base, surrounded by his loyal lieutenants and faithful friends, the victor rested after the battle. It was a fine feeling...
...time, visiting his paralyzed son. It was not Ike's doing that De Gaulle in London wasn't even told of the North African invasion. The British blamed a leak in De Gaulle's staff for their earlier failure to capture Dakar. Ike is still cool toward De Gaulle, who, as Ike tells it, was more of a hindrance than a help to the Allied effort...
...white steamers of the Hudson River Day Line were once as much a part of New York as horsecars and Coney Island. On sweltering summer days, their cool decks were a breezy contrast to the city's steaming streets. Even for those who couldn't or didn't know that it was more beautiful than the Rhine, the Hudson, with its cliffs and vistas, was still a sight for city dwellers' sore eyes. Picnickers dropped off at Indian Point or Bear Mountain at noon, took a downriver boat back to New York in the early evening...
...Philadelphia last week, like the seesawing rubbernecks at a tennis match, eyes kept shifting from the Scoreboard clock to the field. Mighty Army was trailing Pennsylvania, 20-19, and there was less than a minute to play. Army's cool, spindle-legged Quarterback Arnold Galiffa called one fruitless off-tackle smash, one pass that went incomplete. Then he eyed the clock, too. Thirty-five seconds left...
...scrappy, cool 1939 Yale squad caught a Crimson team composed mostly of overconfident sophomores and set it on end to the tune of 20-7. Captain Torbie MacDonald, one of the finest running backs seen in the Stadium in a decade, played a fine game; but the rest of the squad which went on to form the core of Harlow's great 1940 and 1941 outfits--couldn't stand up under the determination of the Elis...