Word: cool
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...here, going to the town dump in a nearby canyon has long been a favorite pastime, not only on Sunday. In the cool of the evening, the pines surround the area, dark and mysterious, and the purple mountains are etched against the glow of the setting sun. Families of sleek skunks sally forth to seek food in among the old car bodies, washing machines, boxes, and tires. Indeed we must claim the most beautiful dump in the country...
...East Germany's real cool cats were concerned, those Communist cubes over at the Ministry of Culture must have flipped. The music for the Lipsi, the German Democratic Republic's newly authorized, ideologically correct song-and-dance craze, sounded like a South American nightmare with a boogie beat. It was nothing but a hopped-up minuet in 6/4 time -bogue*, man, real bogue.-The dance steps themselves looked like a mixed-up rumba, laced with old-fashioned open steps that led to a kind of shimmying amble-ticky, man, real ticky...
...Young Republican Club can no longer regard his extracurricular activity as merely extracurricular. It is a part of his curriculum, and it affects his standing in the community and his regard for himself. In his tutorial group he may flounder about for the answer, and blench under the cool satire of his tutor, but once inside his office he is a different person. This double role may conceivably lead the student-leader into almost a withdrawal into what might be termed academic schizophrenia in which he loses contact with the academic reality of Harvard and narrows his world to that...
GENEVA, April 13--The United States and Britain proposed a prompt termination of atmospheric and underwater nuclear tests today, but the initial Soviet reaction to the proposal was cool...
...over a century of service as British mercenaries, Nepal's tough little Gurkhas have won an enviable reputation as cool and tenacious soldiers. Last week the Nepalese showed they had the same kind of staying power politically. After marathon balloting spread over 45 days, Nepal completed the first elections in its history...