Word: cool
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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White House Correspondent Laurence Barrett found that the visit had a more immediate impact. "While the Administration has been attempting to be relatively cool," he reports, "there has been a lot of boning up for what can be some quite heavyweight diplomacy. It is an interesting reminder that policy and politics are never very far apart." Diplomatic Correspondent Strobe Talbott, an arms-control expert -and author of the forthcoming Deadly Gambits: The Reagan Administration and the Stalemate in Nuclear Arms Control, contributed an analysis of prospects for the resumption of negotiations...
...stare at the 148 black granite slabs inscribed with the names of the 57,939 Americans killed or missing in the Viet Nam War. A decorated veteran, Davis had served in Viet Nam with the 101st Airborne Division when he was only 17 years old. On a bright cool morning last week, Davis, a husband and father of two small children, was found sitting in civilian clothes under a tree just a few hundred feet from the memorial. He had shot himself in the head...
During the emotional week, two Catholics who are Democratic officeholders, New York Governor Mario Cuomo and Massachusetts Senator Edward Kennedy, sought to cool passions with a well-reasoned defense of their own-and by implication, Ferraro's-refusal to seek laws that would impose Catholic moral positions on all of U.S. society. Cuomo, more restrained than in his stirring Democratic Convention keynote speech but just as articulate, drew a standing ovation from an overflow crowd at the University of Notre Dame after a 53-minute discourse in which he asked a pointed question of his fellow Catholics...
...during a celebration, firing wildly in all directions. Some 100 guests were killed, but the King escaped unharmed. The following year, four F-5 jet fighters piloted by rebellious air force officers opened fire on Hassan's Boeing 727, destroying the landing gear as well as an engine. Cool as ever, Hassan reportedly took the controls and persuaded his attackers to cease firing by radioing them, "The tyrant is dead. Enough people have died." He expertly landed the craft and, by having his death proclaimed on the radio, flushed out the leaders of the plot...
...tribe of less developed Neanderthals. Based on Jean Auel's bestselling novel, the movie, due next summer, will strive for authenticity, a fact that Hannah finds chilling. "They drop us in the middle of a glacier, and we're dressed in skins." Hannah was also cool about the wearing of animal pelts ("I'm sort of against it"). Besides, to prepare for their prehistoric personas, Hannah and the rest of the cast had to learn to throw spears, use slings to hurl stones, build a fire without matches, communicate in a special sign language and, most demanding...