Word: cool
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When I was with her, I felt that I, too, could fly. With her, I abandoned myself to the luxury of lechery...to her bare clean lips, her cool tweed sweaters, her short warm tweed skirts, her tights which covered her painfully long thin legs without wrinkling...
...Hubert's 1928 flight from Point Barrow, Alaska, to Spitsbergen-made with Carl Ben Eielson-was the first airplane : ight from North America over the top of the globe to the European area; and the trip under the edge of the Arctic icecap in 1931 was cool enough to chill spines in 1958. A converted U.S. Navy sub, Wilkins' Nautilus had portholes, searchlights, a tusklike bowsprit "feeler," and sled runners above the deck for sliding along the bellies of ice fields. Above the conning tower was a device for cutting through the ice, so that Sir Hubert could...
...families" who are absentee owners of 70% of the land. The Shah himself, as the nation's biggest single landowner (2,500,000 acres), has shown the way by distributing his vast farm properties to the peasants of about 300 of his villages. But the thousand families are cool to land reform. Even worse, landlords seldom reinvest their profits in upgrading the soil. Tenants, who can usually be dispossessed at will with no compensation for any improvements they have made, are understandably reluctant to make any. The Shah has struck hard at one landlord privilege by ordering...
...less metaphysically by their powerful sexual love. It is hard to imagine any other motivation being sufficiently strong, for Jimmy is a bad lot: a slander-mouthed railer, a malicious, nasty, monstrously selfish barbarian, and a bit of a paranoiac as well. His creator views him with a bracingly cool eye, never veiling him in a romantic haze, never losing his objectivity, explaining but not excusing. Since the author never loses sight of the fact that his hero is a "bloody bastard," the audience can hate Jimmy Porter without being annoyed at the author or the play...
Bethlehem's President Arthur B. Homer said that the company has not yet decided whether to appeal. Meanwhile, the decision may well cool some of the merger deals in U.S. industry. The Government has 27 antimerger cases pending, affecting acquisitions by such U.S. industry leaders as Continental Can, El Paso Natural Gas, Pillsbury, Gulf Oil. and Reynolds Metals. While each case will be decided on its own merits, the Justice Department's hand has been strengthened by the Bethlehem case. If Bethlehem appeals to the U.S. Supreme Court, a final decision is not likely before...