Word: cooled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...contingent of Negro ministers and militants returned to city hall, a raucous exchange of words resulted in the arrest of 117 protesters. They went willingly and gently, two by two, singing "Leaning on the everlasting arms." For the most part, in keeping with Memphis tradition, police have kept their cool, even when 200 youngsters invaded the steps of city hall to hold a mock funeral, solemnly burying "Justice" in a borrowed grey casket...
Against Abuse. There were problems, of course. High-crime areas in Miami mean Negro slums, and there were rumbles of discontent from militant Negroes who felt that the crackdown was discriminatory. But Negro merchants were generally pleased, and civil rights leaders worked to cool the hotter tempers. Said one of Chief Headley's top men: "If Miami Beach police crack down, do you say they are anti-Jewish?" Agrees Headley: "Any commanding officer would put his troops where the action...
Fearing the worst and genuinely disgusted with Duvalier, the U.S. withdrew its AID mission in August. Washington maintains a small embassy staff in Port-au-Prince and terms its relations with Duvalier "cool but correct...
...trip to the mysterious East. In Singapore, Auntie eats too much and sinks like a stone in the hotel swimming pool. Hayley wastes neither tears nor time in living and loving it up with a handsome Indian faker who wheels and deals in everything from hot cameras to cool chicks...
Barred from that fusion of minds, he went on, people retreat wholly into themselves or into a makeshift substitute like the frenetic sensuality of the plastic hippie or the cool of the hip intellectual. The hippie's stripped-down jargon--"I dig her;" "it's a groove;" "I' up tight"--thwarts emotional expression by stylizing it, he said. "Did you ever try ending a relationship by saying 'I've got to split the scene'?" The mocking wit of the hip intellectual may be worse, he said, for it skirts around honest feelings without admitting their existence. "You find it impossible...