Word: cool
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...though, it was three lonely men who risked their lives and made the voyage. And in the course of that first soaring escape from the planet that was no longer the world, it was the courage, grace and cool proficiency of Colonel Frank Borman, Captain James Lovell and Major William Anders that transfixed their fellowmen and inscribed on the history books names to be remembered along with those of Marco Polo and Amundsen, Captain Cook and Colonel Lindbergh. In 147 hours that stretched like a lifetime, America's moon pioneers became the indisputable Men of the Year...
...appropriate for the men of the Apollo 8 crew. Flying in the wake of Apollo 7, with the irrepressible Walter Schirra and his rollicking "Wally, Walt and Donn Show," they seemed as staid and businesslike as a group of corporate executives. Borman, Lovell and Anders are deadly serious men, cool under pressure and addicted to speech filled with space jargon. Borman, 40, is a lay reader of the Episcopal Church, and during the Apollo 8 mission read a prayer addressed to "the people of St. Christopher's [his church], actually to people everywhere." He also inspired the Christmas...
...effective at mystifying and icily putting down foreign diplomats. He is far less effective at reassuring French voters. Couve is, in fact, what one of his rivals calls "too Anglo-Saxon." In other words, the Premier, who is a member of France's Protestant minority, is too austere, cool and reserved to inspire much sense of confidence in the French people. At De Gaulle's behest, Couve went on the radio last month to try to cheer the French. The most encouraging thing that the elegant aristocrat could offer was that "things really aren't all that...
...performed Masses, marriages and funeral services without accepting the customary stipends, and converted his rectory into an orphanage. Although Mazzi's ecclesiastical superiors were cool to his worker-priest style, they could hardly complain. Membership in his parish increased from 100 to 2,500, and in 1957 he was able to finance the construction of a new and larger church...
...avoid that, Nixon's strategy is to cool the economy gradually, probably by concentrating more on monetary policy than the Democrats have done. He also aims to hold back federal spending on social programs by giving rather modest tax breaks and other incentives to private businessmen who hire and train the hard-core unemployed. Though many businessmen still doubt whether they can do more than dent the problem, the National Alliance of Businessmen this year got off to a good start by persuading 12,000 employers to hire 84,000 hard-core jobless people and to train many...