Word: cool
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Massachusetts secretary of state. As it was, the built-up resentment against Collins' planners and button-down administrators very nearly lost him the election. Though his Irish pedigree was impeccable, White was suspect in some parts of the city because of his Ivy education (Williams, '52) and cool manner, which sometimes makes him seem more Yankee than the Brahmins...
...questioner is William Thomas Wiley, 30, a graduate of San Francisco's cheerfully ticky-tacky school of funk art. For the past eight months, Wiley has been surveying the cool, hip New York City art scene, and the show at the Frumkin Gallery reflects his conclusions. Wiley finds himself impressed with "how important art is here, how it fits into New York culture." At the same time, he is irked by its high seriousness and the pretentious critical debates that rage about each new fad. "I'm both for and against the New York art scene," says Wiley...
Piston proponents point out that in the past twenty years the race has been won from the pole only three times. Further, the damp, cool weather was made to order for the turbines, and if the temperature reaches 85 degrees on race day, they could lose as much as 20 per cent of their power...
Connie was beautiful. She smiled when she sang in her clear, almost old fashioned style. The lead was playing cool, yellow shades, and long locks adrift in the wind, he would simply shrug his shoulders when he got bored with a rip and with a graceful change of gears slip into something...
...lectures became a game at times. Jarvis quite plainly was not going to lose his cool, and the more imaginative questioners rose to the challenge...