Word: cool
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...police procedures, especially in the force's dealings with minorities. He also promised to use federal funds for additional swimming pools and playground facilities for the Negroes. And Daley ordered the immediate installation of sprinklers on hydrants - as New York City has done - so that they can legally cool kids and tempers on hot days in the slums...
Nature's relief, the cool jet stream from Canada, was pushed out of its normal path by a unique high-pressure system, as impenetrable as a brick wall eight miles high. The barrier actually comprised three immense, tightly interlocked, high-pressure cells without precedent in more than a decade. At week's end one of the highs, out in the Pacific, shifted a bit, and a welcome Arctic draft sneaked through the wall to break-at least temporarily-the dog days of July. August was yet to come...
Expectedly, there were some cool clerical appraisals of Graham's showmanship and "assembly-line approach" to salvation. Anglican Bishop John (Honest to God) Robinson paid tribute to Graham's personal integrity but dismissed his style as "the old-fashioned fundamentalist Gospel, pounding away at sin and bombarding us with texts. This is not evangelism." Summing up for the Anglican Church Times, the Rev. Cecil Northcott charged that "the Graham crusade is a redundant anachronism in a world which demands that its Christianity shall be seen in community life, in social justice, and racial honesty. To be 'saved...
There were also plenty of churchmen more willing to give Billy his due. Among them was London's Anglican Bishop Robert Stopford, a high churchman who has previously been cool to the idea of the crusade. "We hope and pray," he said, "that the great influence of Dr. Graham's personality and message will be lasting in the lives of very many people...
...White House to a Wesleyan University fellowship, Goodwin still hankers to shape national policy. His reflections on Viet Nam, expanded from a recent New Yorker magazine article, are a kind of memo to L.B.J. A flashy but not always illuminating exercise, it ends up sounding improbably like a cool hawk trying to placate hot doves...