Word: cool
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last week Liu, the peasant's son, came upon the trunk of a captured Japanese. In it he found a pair of hobnailed shoes. They were worn and rough, but they were leather. Carefully Liu drew them on his feet. To his bare ankles they felt smooth and cool as silk. Liu wriggled his toes, walked a few steps, and grinned. This was no dream...
...take a hint, and I will see that you get some of Colorado's Pascal celery [TIME, Sept. 24] as soon as the weather turns cool enough to develop its crispy sweetness and incomparable flavor. Colorado celery is so delicious that it doesn't make any difference whether it is salted or not, but it is also good enough that no one minds bending the wrist slightly to salt it. Coloradoans are not "mad" at Mr. Morton, Mr. Carey, the Great Salt Lake, or any other person who has a lot of salt...
...then, cool Jimmy Byrnes and cool Fred Vinson had cooled him off a little, had found his nimble, retentive mind valuable. Many a time Fred Vinson took a tough problem to his boy assistant, said merely: "Let's get this straightened out, Prich." He got results...
...Americans and Mexicans were doing La Bamba, the latest dance to heat up Mexico City's cool nights. Just a few months ago La Bamba steamed up to the higher altitudes from Veracruz, where horsemen and fishing peasants, known as jarochos, have danced it for 400 years. To a jarocho, La Bamba is a studied love ritual of Spanish-Indian origin, in which the dancers start far apart and slowly move together by delicate footwork, tying a ribboned sash on the ground into a lover's knot with their feet. As they dance they sing their own improvised...
There were some 3,000,000 more to go from Czechoslovakia within the next year, if the Big Three approved the transfer as "orderly and humane." Where would they go? That, said Czechoslovakia's Premier Zdenek Fierlinger with cool detachment, was not a Czech problem. "It is the duty of the Germans to care for their...