Word: cool
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week they were surprised by brief gales and showers). Throughout the heat spell, authorities had kept an eye on a below-normal water supply; the use of hoses and sprinklers was banned five days a week. In the London zoo, a lion decided that the best way to keep cool was to relax...
...bricklayers) that they crashed the press seats and part of the official committee's platform. Toasts were drunk in mead, a drink brewed from honey. Hengest & Horsa used to love mead, but 1949's perspiring Vikings gave the impression that they would rather have had some cool beer. The Danes plan to sell the Hugin (it cost $12,000) and go back to Denmark on the oarless Danish patrol vessel Thetis.* They have already arranged to sell their beards, for $1,000, to a Danish manufacturer of razor blades...
...fight, in effect, was for charity. Referee Jack Dempsey gave his services free. Film Comedians Bud Abbott & Lou Costello promoted it as a benefit in aid of the youth foundation established by Costello after his infant son died in 1943. Lightweight Champion Ike Williams, a cool, sharpshooting Negro from New Jersey, whose manager is a good friend of Costello's, took only 7½% of the gate, although Enrique Bolanos, the Mexican-born challenger...
...general reaction to the plan was understandably cool. Some of the U.S. press felt that the Quakers, in their earnest search for a true realism based on the possibility of evoking the goodness in man, had been unrealistically premature. Said the New York Herald Tribune: "All men are not yet Quakers; if they were, we might more easily repose our faith in one another's virtue and good will. In the meantime, we seem fated to base our national policies on the sorrowful facts that it takes one to make a war, two to make a peace...
...most popular new exhibition in London last week was at the stodgy old Royal Society of Arts. Strictly for the hot weather, the society had assembled 162 cartoons and sketches, by 50 artists, chosen to reflect the British sense of humor. Princess Elizabeth, in cool green and white, gave the show a royal launching with a tour of inspection that covered a century and a half of evidence...