Word: cool
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...automobiles." The trade offers, suspiciously similar, were aimed at a big target: a country with 100,000 Communist Party members and enough party-liners to swing a tight election. They were shrewdly directed at sensitive areas such as Petrobras, of which the public is fiercely proud. Publicly, Petrobras was cool to the Torgbraz offers, but privately it awaited a top governmental decision. Congressional and army opinion was building up for a resumption of both trade and diplomatic relations with Russia...
...killed him? Who killed the cool, cool Bard, With his foul, foul "poems?" You killed...
...they also had agreed to miss no chance for practical discussion of practical roads to peace. They had worked no miracles, but none had been expected; their mood as they left Paris was well described by Belgium's Paul-Henri Spaak, secretary general of NATO, as one of "cool determination" rather than "poorly founded exaltation." Along with other NATO leaders who sat around the table, Secretary General Spaak could find little resemblance between what went on in the conference room and what was shouted in the headlines of dispute and disintegration that had rattled out of the press rooms...
Anticipation of recession was scarier than the realization. When the production cuts finally started, the nation's mood gradually turned from nail-biting to cool appraisal. The quick shift in sentiment was clear on Wall Street, which for a change accurately reflected business opinion through 1957. In January and February, when the first gloom-sayers gave tongue, stocks tumbled 44 points to 454.82 on the Dow-Jones industrial average. Later, when it became apparent that the initial pessimism was overdone, the market soared to within only a quarter of a point of the alltime 521.05 high reached...
Ordet. A religious allegory, swathed in a cool northland light, by Denmark's Carl (Day of Wrath) Dreyer (TIME...