Word: cool
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Aside from the New York Times, which thought that Fidel's friendly new look "deserves serious scrutiny and thorough exploration," the reaction was generally cool. The State Department regarded the Cuban overture as an attempt to buy time and take some of the steam out of the OAS, advised Castro to back his words with evidence. Said a spokesman: "We have consistently maintained that there are two elements that are not negotiable-Castro's ties of dependency with the Soviet Union, which are tantamount to Soviet domination, and the continuance of Castro's promotion of subversion elsewhere...
When most animals are exposed to heat, they keep cool by sweating or panting. Not the camel. Its nappy coat insulates it against external temperatures, and it can withstand body temperatures of up to 104.9°F. before its sweat glands begin to function. As the camel is cooled by its evaporating sweat, it can lose up to 30% of its total body weight without harm because the water content in the blood plasma stays close to normal, permitting the blood to circulate freely. Camels loping in after a two-week journey across the sands are often in an extremely...
...joined Rusty Bryant's band, toured with it for 21 years. But it was not until Saxophonist Cannonball Adderley introduced her to the New York jazz scene that she scrapped her scooby-dooing gimmickry for her present artfully derivative jazz style. She is, all at once, both cool and sweet, both singer and storyteller. These attributes should be enough to sustain her to the day when, if ever, the First Lady decides to step down...
...most prized fixtures in many a U.S. executive suite is a British secretary. In Manhattan, her impeccable manners, cool good looks, clipped telephone accent and considerable secretarial skills are greeted with more than ordinary hands-across-the-sea enthusiasm. Through friends or enterprising employment agencies, some 700 young English girls enter the U.S. each year to work for a while as secretaries...
...used to taking your jazz in a club, Newport is rather a shock. Instead of the usual hot, smokey atmosphere, and the sweating, swinging musicians alternately caressing and blasting your ears, you sit anonymously at a distance in a cool summer breeze, listening to a series of musicians each of whom has about 45 minutes to get on stage, get warmed up, establish his mood, and then get off again. It's like a parade, but somehow nearly every artist can establish himself and make himself felt...