Word: cool
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...workers-some 5,000 strong-won results far more tangible and immediate than their predecessors in the South. In an era when many younger Americans are turning away from involvement in the democratic process, by dropping out either to psychedelia or to the nihilism of the New Left, the cool, crisply executed crusade of Gene McCarthy's "ballot children" provided heartening evidence that the generation gap is bridgeable-politically, at least...
...cool, controlled advocate during more than ten hours of grilling, Rusk assured the committee that an "A to Z" review of the war was going on within the Administration. That hardly assuaged the committee's fears of a buildup of as many as 200,000 additional men. By week's end, word leaked out that the Administration-perhaps as a partial reaction to the hearing-had ruled out a massive troop increase. One spokesman said that the prospect is more likely to be a moderate buildup in the coming months...
...Harvard student ate 50 eggs last night, Paul Newman-style, and was dubbed Harvard's "Cool Hand Luke...
Menocal ate his way out of a "monstrous" debt to a Wellesley student. After seeing Cool Hand Luke, he offered to eat the eggs or pay twice the money. "I also wanted to see if it could be done," he added...
...tiered price for gold announced Sunday afternoon is commonly admitted to be only a stopgap measure. In order to restore confidence in the dollar, the U.S. has to cool its overheated economy and reduce the payments deficit. There are a number of coolants available. The Federal Reserve can raise the discount rate in order to curb investment demand, which it has done, or it can take steps to check the growth of the money supply or even reduce it. But neither of these methods will be adequate; it has become necessary to sharply reduce the federal budget deficit...