Word: cool
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Long, Cool Summer. Though these and other charges made the headlines, the great, little-noted majority of federally aided anti-poverty programs in 13,344 different U.S. areas seem by contrast to be more boon than doggie. Nearly 350,000 underprivileged youngsters (the majority of them Negro) are currently working in the most effective of all the organizations: the Neighborhood Youth Corps. Their new-found employment has put money in their pockets, taught them work skills and hobbies, and-despite fears of Wattslike racial violence-helped make the past summer a long, cool one for most...
...curbstones. In some places the cheering onlookers were packed five and ten deep along the streets, and Fifth Avenue was a solid sea of faces. But embarrassingly long stretches of the papal route were almost bereft of welcomers, as millions of other New Yorkers apparently used the cool October weather as an excuse to obey police suggestions that they stay home and watch it all on television...
...Sorensen, nothing is more unfair than the judgment-most often passed by "professional liberals"-that Kennedy was basically shallow, aloof and uncommitted. "Some mistook his humor, gaiety and gentle urbanity for a lack of depth, and some mistook his cool calculation of the reasonable for a lack of commitment," writes Sorensen. "But his wit was merely an ornament to the earnest expressions that followed, and his reason reinforced his deep convictions and ideals...
...followed the marchers gathering in the cool interior of the white board church and we sat down in the back. I felt totally out of place...
Compulsive v. Cool. If the refugees were embarrassing to Castro, the curious case of Che Guevara was doubly so. For that had to do with Cuba's independence and leadership. In the early days of the revolution, Castro and Guevara were virtually inseparable, one the compulsive man of action, the other the cool, brainy tactician. Some wags called the Argentine Guevara a "Gau-cho Marx," but they said it with a sour smile. Che was in the original rebel band in the Sierra Maestra mountains in 1956, the man who mapped Castro's guerrilla tactics against Dictator Fulgencio...