Word: cool
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...continued. Every nation was busy extracting every drop of propaganda value in the negotiating, and preparing its positions for the meeting itself. Khrushchev himself made a jet flight to Peking to talk things over with Comrade Mao, who had given Soviet summit maneuverings full endorsement-but had been noticeably cool about having the talks under Security Council auspices, where Nationalist China sits-especially as Red China has never succeeded, as Warren Austin once said, in shooting its way into...
Artful Ally. De Gaulle's cool and correct independence was a welcome relief from the stereotyped and sterile unity in which Western responses are often couched. As an old connoisseur of insults, Khrushchev seemed appreciative of De Gaulle's, and was probably hopeful that he might have driven a wedge between the U.S. and France. De Gaulle's message delighted the French, who noted that De Gaulle had dispatched Couve de Murville to Rome and Bonn to line up continental countries behind his plan to speak for Europe at the summit. There was even the suggestion that...
...Gaulle's angularly dignified assertion of French independence, matched by Macmillan's cool self-confidence, might even help the U.S. free itself from fears of an untimely and unequal propaganda confrontation with Khrushchev...
...John Lewis Piano (Atlantic). The leader of the Modern Jazz Quartet takes some standards (Little Girl Blue, It Never Entered My Mind) and some of his own compositions (Harlequin, Colombine) and strips them to the clean, cool bone. The spare treatments have a fragile charm all their own, but when heard in bulk they speak in an emotional monotone ultimately as wearying as a series of landscapes executed in whites and greys...
Golden Yeggs. In Afferden, Holland, Willy Croonen kept finding his truck's tires deflated, stopped blaming the neighborhood children when he learned that a pair of geese liked to peck at the valves, cool themselves in the escaping...