Word: cool
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Integration Must Begin." The first straightening was done by a tiny (5 ft. i in., 140 Ibs.) U.S. district judge named Ronald Davies, who had arrived in Little Rock from Fargo, N. Dak. only nine days before to take the bench of a judge who had retired. Curt, cool Judge Davies, 52, son of a small-town North Dakota' newspaper editor, got his law at Georgetown University, and practiced in Grand Forks (pop. 32,500) until President Eisenhower appointed him to the bench in 1955. Davies took just six minutes to order the school board to go ahead with...
...most powerful weapon ever developed is in good hands." Communist diplomats haughtily brushed aside the latest Western proposals on disarmament (see FOREIGN NEWS), instead threatened U.S. allies and warned them to abandon U.S. bases. The new missile, said Moscow radio, "is a gigantic step forward that ought to cool off the hotheads...
...wisecracking, globetrotting Fred Sparks, 42, was lolling on a New Jersey beach when his office put through an urgent call: get to Hong Kong and be ready to enter Red China. Sparks normally wears a toupee over thinning hair, but he had just shaved his scalp for a cool vacation, and the toupee had nothing to cling to. So Fire-Horse Sparks rushed off without it, had a hair-curling time persuading Hong Kong immigration officials that he was really the fur-bearing man pictured on his passport. Snorted Sparks last week...
Abandoned Principle. On graduation, Morse decided that the one thing he really wanted to do was to paint. He was apprenticed to the great expatriate, Benjamin West, in London, and four years later came home an accomplished academician with an art that was as cool as its reception. For many years Artist Morse had a hard time making ends meet. So at 41 he abandoned his father's principle of attending to one thing at a time to resume tinkering with electricity. The principle of the telegraph was in his head. After a decade of tinkering Morse achieved what...
...audiences away and frazzled actors' tempers, Happy Hunting's Ethel Merman and Fernando Lamas feuded over the firing of one of Lamas' buddies, found that their nightly onstage smooch grated too harshly on their star-crossed sensibilities, worked out a solution: instead of the kiss, a cool, coexistent...