Word: cool
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Twenty-five seconds later Harvard tied the score, as B.U. seemed to have blown its cool--at least temporarily. Smith took the puck to the left of the cage, drawing two Terrier defensemen with him, and then whipped a lovely pass to Parrot. The brilliant sophomore flipped the puck over Ferreira's shoulder and the game was tied...
...dismayed by your story on "Pop Prayer" [Nov. 26]. However, the Episcopalians have no monopoly on this. Our local reform rabbi, from his pulpit, pleads with us to come to "syna-go-go." The children think he's "cool...
...pictures are really abstractions," says Christ-Janer, 55, "that, I hope, come through with a magic that makes people see nature in them." He can brush a cool, grainy vision that recalls arctic tundra seen from 25,000 ft. up, or the scorched, forever autumnal desert of the American Southwest. Says he: "The earth, the sky and the sea are my sources of information...
Harold Wilson arrived at U.N. headquarters in New York last week to appeal for reason. "I beseech this assembly," said he, "to give us time to deal with this situation. Calm, cool counsels are more likely to settle this issue. If passions take control, this mad action could be the beginning of a new and more dangerous conflict, unlike any in world history." Before he began to speak, 25 African delegates (including eight Commonwealth representatives) had walked out on him. Snapped Tanzania's Ambassador John Malecela: "Africa feels the United Kingdom is stalling...
Calm & Effective. Perhaps. But there was little doubt last week that much of the credit for the successful rendezvous belonged to casual Wally Schirra, who, at 42, is the oldest astronaut flying. It was his cool and seasoned performance during the abortive Sunday launch of Gemini 6 that made the midweek triumph possible. Had he panicked and pulled the Dring ("chicken switch") that would have ejected him and Copilot Stafford from the Gemini capsule, the mission could probably not have been sent aloft on time. His superb piloting of the capsule, perfected in long hours of practice in the Houston...