Word: cool
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dashes to the North and South Poles, showed up at the local Columbia Broadcasting System offices and proclaimed his readiness to record an interview about "Operation Deepfreeze," his new Navy expedition to Antarctica, due to get under way next month. CBS welcomed him warmly, invited the admiral to cool his heels while it explored its program schedules. Half an hour later, it developed that the famed explorer had missed his bearings. Near by, the Mutual Broadcasting Co. was preparing to send out a search party for him. As he altered course, Admiral Byrd confessed: "I'm embarrassed...
Reading "The Wouk Mutiny" [Sept. 5] was like feeling a cool breeze when the temperature hits 98°. Hurrah! Decency has a champion in modern literature...
...Citizens of London, wish us Godspeed." Within an hour, some 2,000,000 Britons had watched their first television commercial-a tube of Gibbs toothpaste sliding majestically down a mountain stream in a cake of ice while an announcer crooned, "It's cool, cool, cool." For years, the debate over permitting American-style commercial TV to invade the unsullied air waves of Britain has rent the nation with a fury unmatched since Burke demanded conciliation for the rebellious American colonists. But at the end of the new Independent Television Authority's first day of telecasting. Britain was still...
Back in the heat of summer, when the American League pennant race was still relatively cool, a grey-thatched seer named Casey Stengel squinted into the future. He saw his New York Yankees and the Cleveland Indians scrambling through the stretch drive toward the flag. "That Cleveland," he said, with magnificent scorn for the team that last year had beaten him out of his sixth championship in a row. "I hope everybody beats them. Cleveland! All they got is Wynn and Score for pitchers. Detroit! They been a disappointment. But they'll be doing me a favor if they...
...Eisenhower recommended lengthening high school and college courses, perhaps to five years each, to meet the needs of modern life, lamented to reporters at Lowry Air Force Base in Denver that "college education is not provided free and high school education is." The President's remarks got a cool reception from educators who believe that the solution is to reorganize the schools, not lengthen the years of study...