Word: cool
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...decision is not an easy one. Some economists believe that if Johnson refuses to raise individual and corporate income taxes to cool the war-heated economy, severe inflation will result...
Premier Nguyen Cao Ky moved last week to cool the month-old simmering crisis in his Cabinet. The feud was sparked by the Cabinet's southerners, who resent the fact that most of the top jobs in Saigon and within the government and army are held by North Vietnamese-born refugees from Communism like Ky himself. Skillfully de-escalating the crisis, Ky used earnest pleas for unity to placate most of the seven Cabinet ministers who originally petitioned him to resign. In the end, only four finally left the Cabinet...
...idea of a formal excommunication ceremony to isolate Red China dates from the days of Khrushchev, but the new team of Brezhnev and Kosygin let the matter cool when they took power in 1964, hoping to close the rift. One good reason: the Kremlin knew it could not count on the support of its Communist allies, for party bosses had made clear their opposition to a Soviet blackball of any Red nation...
Perhaps, but only if the court chooses to apply Adderley v. Florida to all kinds of property, a choice it has not yet made-for now the country's demonstrators are clearly on notice to cool it. The Supreme Court, warned Black, emphatically rejects "the assumption that people who want to propagandize protests or views have a constitutional right to do so whenever and however and wherever they please...
...county fiscal court, which is roughly equivalent to a city council. Since it has a county's sole taxing power, the court must pass on all public spending - a chore that al most inevitably engulfs the magistrates in all manner of hot politics as well as cool principles...