Word: cool
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...opposition to the theories behind our project." But undaunted Director Abbott galloped over England and the U.S., roping poets left and right-". . . lunch at Taplow with Walter de la Mare . . . the Isle of Wight with Alfred Noyes. . . . Witter Bynner adobe-housed at Santa Fe . . . Louis Untermeyer [cornered] in a cool fastness of the Adirondacks. . . ." Director Abbott sometimes corralled as many as five poets a day ("undeniably taxing"), and found his largest rewards in New York City, where, he says, poets range "in numbers almost beyond belief...
...Harry Truman wanted was a back porch-a cool place where he could sit of an evening, as he used to back in Independence, listening to the whir of the sprinkler on the lawn and the sound of neighbors' voices coming clear through the summer air. He consulted an architect; together, they found just the place for it. It would be inconspicuously tucked away behind the pillars of the White House's south portico, at the second-floor level. The plans were drawn, the money ($15,000) set aside from White House maintenance funds. Then the storm broke...
Scuffling broke out and then some cool-headed peacemaker switched off the lights. After a few seconds of total darkness, cigarette lighters flashed like fireflies on a summer night. And that was enough...
Just as the music was beginning and Barbara Ann was set to flash onto the ice, the loudspeaker screeched. The racket might have unnerved a lesser competitor. Cool and calm in silver-braided chiffon, Barbara Ann waited easily, then, at the first musical note, was off with a sparkle of skates. When the last strain of Babes in Toyland had crackled away, and seven international judges had gravely conferred, Barbara Ann Scott was unanimously voted, for the second year in a row, Europe's champion woman figure skater...
...Great Rehearsal is a day-by-day account of the convention; it is cool and unexcited. Deliberately, it seems, Author Van Doren has restrained himself from paying tribute to the magnitude of the accomplishment that he records. The book's drama is not in the telling, but in the event. For the miracle of the Constitutional Convention was not that the delegates organized a nation; it was the kind of nation they created, one that has grown and prospered beyond any in history, and will so continue, as long as it remains faithful to its origins...