Word: cool
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...COOL HAND LUKE. Sadistic guards are unable to shake the sang-froid of a cocky chain-gang prisoner (Paul Newman), who wins the respect of hostile fellow prisoners, until he is finally beaten into groveling for mercy...
Friendly Five. To avoid a head-on collision with France, the ministers of the "friendly Five" worked out a com promise formula that is not likely to satisfy anyone completely but may cool matters. The formula agrees that Brit ain should be given a definite answer to its application by the Six this week, just as London demands. But it further provides that if France's intransigence prevents a unanimous reply, as seems certain, the whole matter will be put off and discussed later...
...alliance's military setup, France is still a member of NATO. But it is beginning to show its lack of interest even on the political level: Foreign Minister Couve de Mur-ville sat in the political meetings and studiously read Le Monde. The French Foreign Minister's cool disdain for the proceedings was regarded by other ministers as a sign that France will exercise the option that becomes operative under the NATO charter in 1969 and withdraw from the organization entirely. De Gaulle reckons that since the U.S. will defend Europe anyway, France may as well enjoy...
Princeton's Bill Bradley let professional basketball cool its heels for two years while he studied philosophy, politics and economics at Oxford, then another five months passed while he served out his military duty in the U.S. Air Force Reserve. Two weeks ago, the man who ranks as one of the game's all-time college greats finally reported to the New York Knickerbockers to start work on his four-year, $500,000 contract. From the way the fans reacted, he might have been Bob Cousy, Oscar Robertson and Wilt Chamberlain all rolled into one. In Bradley...
They'd know that jaunty saunter 0anywhere. Bob Hope comes onstage with the cocky glide of a golfer who has just knocked off three birdies for a 68 and nailed Arnold Palmer to the clubhouse door. The crooked grin spreads wide, the clear brown eyes stay cool, and the audience roars its welcome; they can hardly wait for Hope to sock it to them. And so he does. Five, six gags a minute. Pertinent, impertinent, leering, perishing. And sometimes plopping, but only for an instant. When he misses, the famous scooped snoot shoots defiantly skyward, the prognathous jaw drops...