Word: cool
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Possibly to signal a willingness to cool the conflict, U.S. withdraws sizable reconnaissance force from A Shau Valley...
...presidential nomination, John Vliet Lindsay, 46, the 103rd Mayor of New York and the holder of the second toughest political post in the U.S., was faced with the distinct prospect of political repudiation. The city's 2,000,000 Jews, once a cornerstone of his constituency, had turned cool and often hostile. Jeers greeted his name at synagogues; "hate mail" came into his office. City Hall became a fortress against an angry city, and Lindsay spent more and more time at Gracie Mansion, the city's elegant mayoral residence overlooking the East River. Only a short time...
...infantrymen--one English and one Russian--who try to strip corpses amid the gory chaos of Balaclava. The calm manner with which he draws his revolver and kills the two men is utterly anomalous in the excitement and emotionalism of the battle and the setting: Nolan acts with the cool detachment of a German SS officer. And when he himself is killed by a piece of shrapnel at the beginning of the Charge, he emits a high-pitched shriek which becomes disembodied--suddenly the contorted face on the screen is no longer producing the sound, for the shriek is that...
Against all debits, Lindsay has two major accomplishments to his credit. He gave the city a sense of excitement, pride and stylish fun. And while other U.S. cities were torn by riots, Lindsay could cool Harlem or Bedford-Stuyvesant by strolling through their streets, meeting their inhabitants and keeping in careful touch with their problems. But last week his lucky touch seemed to be failing for the first time...
...effort to cool tempers, School Superintendent Bernard Donovan ordered J.H.S. 271 closed for two days, while he held meetings with the school's faction-torn faculty. Then Shanker shattered Donovan's efforts by barging into one of the meetings, and demanding that the union should be represented. Donovan gave up, ordered the school reopened and gave its principal the right to assign the challenged teachers to non-classroom chores. With that, Shanker called for a strike. Only 8,000 of the U.F.T.'s 55,000 members bothered to vote to approve a walkout, but most of them...