Word: cool
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...debut, Soprano Little radiated much of the cool assurance-but not all the stagewise technique-of a veteran. The voice she displayed was not yet a big one, but it had a smooth, satiny quality ideally suited to the menacing, feline tension of her carefully calculated movements. Her opening-night performance was received with warm applause and scattered smart-aleck brays of "Little, go home!" By the second performance, she had her audience cheering after both her big first-act arias. Concluded one influential critic: "The debut came perhaps a bit too early, but it might well be the beginning...
...responsible for new U.S. space weapons and weapons defenses, the director of the Defense Department's Advanced Research Projects Agency must also be able to defend himself against sharpshooting from Congress and from the three armed services. Picked for the post last week by Defense Secretary McElroy: squarejawed, cool-eyed Roy W. (for William) Johnson, 52, vice president of the General Electric Corp. Johnson will resign from G.E. (but keep "substantial" G.E. stock), take over ARPA April i after two weeks of briefings for an assignment that has no precedent...
Last week Strauss tried to cool British resentment with an offer to advance Britain $280 million against future German armament buying. Britain could use the cash to bolster foreign currency reserves, but such a "loan" was hardly a substitute for the funds it needs to help support its 60,000-man Rhine army...
...whodunit about who would rule England's roost; and it is a success story of a butcher's son who rose to highest honors in his country and his church only to fall in the end. Though Biographer Ferguson (a Reader's Digest editor) takes a cool view of theological matters, the book always conveys the rising sense of crisis in which Canterbury split from Rome. It was Wolsey's difficult role to represent both the universal church and an island king. As Ferguson puts it: "Rome could pay his wages, and England could enjoy...
...give off energy. This process happens explosively in H-bombs, but to control the reaction, the deuterium must be confined. Since ordinary, solid walls cannot hold the gas at the necessary temperature of many million degrees, fusion reactors use walls of magnetic force. They are strong, do not cool the gas and are not damaged by it. But the machines' complexity proves that magnetic walls are hard to handle...