Word: cool
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cool Command. So far, Nixon has rejected the bait. He is consciously playing the statesman, in cool command of his passions and his party. He is aware that controversial stands would endanger one flank of support or the other. So far, he has succeeded in holding the liberal Republicans who opposed him for the nomination. He is more worried about the other flank. To prevent wholesale defections of Republicans and disgruntled Democrats to Wallace, he has, consequently, adopted a "yes, but" attitude. He is for the non-proliferation treaty, but against ratification just now?a position that could...
Sometimes there is more menace than reality to the Panthers' bloodthirsty bluster. Leaders justifiably claim that they helped cool the summer by arguing against riots that pit blacks against an overwhelming white force. Yet they cry for an ultimate bloody upheaval at some future time when blacks will have a tactical advantage. A heavy majority of Negroes reject this sort of thing as ridiculous mumbo jumbo. But many moderates are too intimidated by the Panthers to speak out, and quite a few like the way they stand up to white authority and foster black pride. But unless the white...
...well you know that its a fool who plays it cool...
Embrace and Exclaim. Two nights later, it was Patiño's turn. At his 240-acre Quinta Patiño, five miles away in Alcoitão, he had four bands, instead of the Schlumbergers' two. The moon was bright, the night clear and cool, as Patiño had hoped. And all the same people were there, the ladies in different gowns, to embrace and exclaim. No one could bear to miss a moment. As Iran's ex-Queen Soraya explained: "I'm very pained over what happened in Iran. But an earthquake...
...which could make up to 60 m.p.h. between chargings, v. 55 miles for Caltech, had even more troubles. About 950 miles from the starting line, the car simply died. It took nearly a day to revive it. On the road, 200 Ibs. of ice had to be carried to cool the battery. Says M.I.T.'s Jim Martin: "It was like driving an iceberg." Then, at Victorville, Calif., the car's engine idled at twice its normal r.p.m.s, blew up on its block, and had to be towed 130 miles to the Pasadena finish line. It got there...