Word: cool
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Apparently resigned by poll time last week, Texas picked cool, careful State Railroad Commissioner Beauford Jester, 53, the top middle-of-the-road candidate, as its No 1 Democratic gubernatorial contender. Lawyer Jester had run a "friendship" campaign, refrained from shouting and stomping. The lesser evil for oil-and-cattle-rich voters, he had breezed through without one appearance with a hillbilly band...
...nationalization issue had forced Austrian parties into unusual positions. Chancellor Figl's own Catholic People's Party, suspected of being cool toward nationalization, warmed to it markedly when it seemed the most direct way of opposing Russian penetration. The Communists, having loudly called for drastic nationalization measures, did not dare back down even under the threat of fierce Russian displeasure...
Another batsmen who has boosted the Varsity along is the last two contests is Davie Farrell. He is hitting for a cool .667 and he laced out an all-important two-bagger in the last Squantum game...
Included in the group are eight men from last year's Varsity, and Coach Vaughan says that several of the newcomers are definitely Varsity material. Vaughan does not think that the men are just out for swimming to keep cool. He says, "They really want to swim and learn to better their stroke...
...picture's chief novelty: cool, blonde Alexis Smith, try as she will, fails to inspire the hero to Better Things. With her ladylike beauty, Alexis has made quite a Hollywood careeer of inspiring heroes, especially composers (the film George Gershwin and the film Cole Porter, both under Alexis' magic spell, sat right down and dashed off their best music). But she doesn't quite click with the screen's young Maugham. The poor boob goes right on yearning for that impossible, vulgar hashslinger...