Word: cool
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Phil Isenberg, Mel Freedman, and George Goodrich, all good line-backers. The quarterback in the Michigan system is essentially a blocking back, doing little-ball-carrying or passing. "We can't afford to have our quarterbacks bumped up too much, explains Valpey, because they have to keep a clear, cool head in order to call the plays...
...spite of this the University's crew of secretaries consistently do an astounding job of staying cool, calm, efficient, polite, and genial. Hats, off gentlemen...
Locked in some cool aseptic heaven above...
Then, for more than six hours, the committee's questioners tried to pin Alger Hiss down to fine details. Lawyer Hiss, a Harvard Law School graduate and a onetime secretary to Oliver Wendell Holmes, was not an easy man to pin down. He was cool, deliberate and professional, at times tripping up and correcting his questioners, at all times insisting on giving a precise answer. Knowing better than anyone that a possible perjury charge hung on his every word, he almost never offered a flat yes or a flat no. His favorite phrase, as he fenced tediously with...
...cool of night had descended on Ebbets Field; it was only 94° in the dusk. In a box on the 50-yard line sat old Branch Rickey, in his shirtsleeves, peering disconsolately at the half-empty house (16,411). His baseball Brooklyn Dodgers were packing in the fans; this was Rickey's first game as owner of a pro football team -also known as the Brooklyn Dodgers. All afternoon, ticket cancellations had poured in. Even three of Rickey's own guests begged off. Snorted Branch disgustedly: "Who ever heard of canceling a football game because...