Word: cool
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Goodbye." Whatever the plan, Mac-Arthur tried it on Ike, who seemed to like the idea. But, MacArthur told Considine, it was dashed by the "cool, calculating voice of the lawyer"-John Foster Dulles. MacArthur pleaded with Ike, declared that he had the "greatest opportunity for good since the birth of Jesus Christ, the power to make the greatest impression since the Crucifixion. You cannot fail to be remembered in history as a messiah. Yours is a messianic mission. Believe me! Your name will be called blessed." When Ike, at Dulles' urging, turned him down, Mac-Arthur said: "Goodbye...
...Norfolk, Va., where his mother was born. There, city fathers had restored a 114-year-old former courthouse and designated it the MacArthur Memorial. The walls were inscribed with passages from famed MacArthur speeches. Family and friends watched in silence as the casket was slowly placed in the cool crypt beneath the rotunda. And then the tomb was sealed...
...accompaniment of Ron Carter and the great Sam Jones on bass and Connie Kay on drums, Timmons here runs through such dark delights as Malice Towards None, Namely You and Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child, and the result is a fascinating blues album full of bemusement and cool laughter...
...calculated geometries are mechanical but their constant variation keeps the eye on the move, and his cool color harmonies send off winnowing waves of motion, like stones dropped in water. Through April...
William Liller '48, Robert Wheeler Willson Professor of Applied Astronomy (Telescopic observation of the emission component of an ionized calcium line in cool stars, at the Cambridge University Observatory). John Rawis, professor of Philosophy (An analytical study of the concept of justice, at Harvard...