Word: cool
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...from the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission's huge Hanford plutonium plant near the Columbia River in Washington, came a plain-spoken report of how even the tightest precautions have some leaks. Radioactive wastes from Hanford, e.g., phosphorous, got into the river in water that had been used to cool the Hanford reactors. The waste was first absorbed by diatoms, tiny simple-celled plants, then by the larvae of insects. Fish that ate the larvae registered a radiophosphorous concentration 100,000 times the normal amount...
Smiling with goateed charm, Premier Bulganin shook hands with them all. He kissed a little girl, and beckoned the guests to wander at large through cool woods and beside ornamental lakes, photographing whatever they desired. He himself helped U.S. Ambassador Charles Bohlen's daughter catch three fish, and he played with Italian Ambassador Di Stefano's ten-year-old son. Lunch was served under a canvas canopy in the open air. A military band played and a Red army bugler called the guests to table...
...disaster and was mobbed by genuinely cheering crowds, a Pakistani said: "Mirza has done more for the common man whom he says he despises than all the politicians who promised a new heaven and earth to get votes." Today Mirza lives in a big house with ample grounds and cool white porticos in the center of Karachi with his second wife, a sophisticated Persian.* Mirza's appointment to the governor generalship requires the formal confirmation of Queen Elizabeth, but Strongman Mirza is in no doubt about what his authority will give him. Said he: "The Governor General must have...
...good guy, Actor Grant never had it so good. He is an American, a reformed jewel thief, known in his day as "The Cat." Now retired, he lives cool and easy on the rocks, puttering about a villa. Then comes trouble. The police suspect that he is responsible for a batch of jewel robberies. To prove his innocence, he must uncover the real villain...
...editors of Christianity and Crisis, biweekly journal of Protestant opinion, last week announced the discovery of a new religion: Naturism. "At this time of year," said the article, "in places where there are cool breezes, mountain vistas, forest glades, sylvan lakes (how easily the phrases come to mind!) or even inviting fairways, the adherents of Naturism begin to go on a spiritual spree...