Word: cool
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Columbia, despite its winless record, gave Yale quite a scare last Saturday, and its style of offense should test the improving Crimson line severely. For Benham will not be so easily rushed as some other quarterbacks; remarkably cool, he fades back and prefers to eat the ball rather than throw it away...
Still the county commissioners sat unmoving and unresponsive, whispering among themselves and to their attorneys. At last Dr. Coggins' cool patience gave way. "You're all fools, fools!" she cried as she got up and started toward the door. "I'm going to stay in Madison, and you are going to have to look at me for a long time...
...temper Nye Bevan's satisfaction, the conference in its later stages turned into a triumph for the moderate Gaitskell. After ten months of leadership (the leader chosen by the party's 277 M.P.s), Gaitskell faced the whole party for the first time. The delegates were cool toward him in the beginning, but warmed to the speech, delivered with confidence and fervor, with which Gaitskell wound up a later debate. The cheers kept on until Gaitskell rose and took a bow-a tribute almost never tendered at Laborite conventions. Raising a hand, and with shining face and vibrant voice...
...delegation from the Hungarian Communist Party, led by Erno Gero himself, prepared to pay court to Belgrade. A delegation from the Italian party, the most powerful outside the Iron Curtain, was already on Tito's doorstep. Rumania was sending a delegation, and also the French Communist Party, hitherto cool towards the Yugoslavs. Pravda reported that differences between the Yugoslav and Soviet Communist Parties had "considerably lessened" and were "continuing to diminish...
...Davis Jr., Joe DiMaggio, Martha Raye, Dorothy Kilgallen) who did nothing much but stand around being celebrities. But the singers worked to good effect: Lola Fisher, understudy for Julie (My Fair Lady) Andrews, singing I Could Have Danced All Night as if she could have; Perry Como's cool, limp delivery of new lyrics to Debussy's Claire de Lune...