Word: cool
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...President told his Cabinet members that his mind was made up; he told them his plan of action. He set the timing himself: he would make a nationwide broadcast to the people that night, personally take specific emergency anti-strike proposals to Congress the next day. The usually cool Missourian had his dander up. Late in the day he had a swim and his periodic physical checkup. Reported his physician: the President's blood pressure was "way up yonder...
...news spread through the town, Moslem Leaguers and Congress followers marched through Simla's cool streets, shouting "Long live Pakistan!" and "Long live Hindustan!" Their cries roused sleeping monkeys in Simla's trees; they chattered long and mournfully into the night...
...muffled tread of labor, marching, beat in Southern ears. The C.I.O. was already on crusade (TIME, May 13). This week, in Asheville's cool mountain air, the A.F. of L. mustered its ranks for the torrid tramp through Dixie...
Sometimes even Russians go too far. Vadim Siniavsky did. Reviewing the Moscow Dynamo Club's soccer invasion of Britain (TIME, Nov. 26), he beefed in Pioneer, a youth journal, that Britons had given the Russian champs a cool reception, had offered them a moldy, cobwebby barracks, had insisted on playing a game despite heavy...
Thompson recommends: 1) "focal walls"-catching pupil attention by painting the facing wall a darker or lighter value than the side walls; 2) "glare minimization"-equalizing lights and shadows by painting window walls in brighter colors than the opposite walls; 3) "correct room orientation"-cool colors (blue and green) for rooms with west or south exposures; warm colors (red, orange, yellow) for those with east or north exposures...