Word: cool
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cool courage and a natural, bushwhacking ability to operate with small forces always pulled him out. For the easy, offhand job he did with a rifle in holding off a unit of Russian partisans which had attacked an American platoon, he won the Distinguished Service Cross...
...gaunt General de Gaulle came to Washington last week it was exactly one year since he had marched into liberated Paris behind the might of U.S. arms. It was little more than 13 months since his last visit to the U.S., when he had repaid Franklin Roosevelt's cool reserve with a stiff hauteur...
...prospect of peace was as diverse as the provinces of China (see map). Noodle-eating Northerners, the tall, rugged people of the Yellow River region, were going back to their cool villages and towns. In Peiping they would eat onions again, fondle walnuts in their palms, see the Temple of Heaven and the old lacquered palaces, bring their songbirds to street corners in the afternoons...
William Beebe, 68, past master at best-selling exploration (Jungle Peace, Jungle Days), returned to Manhattan from yet another expedition, reported that he had done his latest wildlife-peeping from the cool veranda of an unused Venezuelan luxury hotel. He broke his leg and spent most of his five-month stay peering at the jungle through binoculars. He found the view so good that he now would like to build the place into a sort of scientists' center...
When a strong cool blast of it (Ella Raines) wakes him up and threatens to make a man of him, everyone except Harry realizes that Sister Lettie's feelings about him exceed the sisterly. From there on the story is ever-crueler melodrama, culminating in a tacked-on ending which the audience is requested not to tell-presumably on the assumption that everybody has the right to feel sold...