Word: cooled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...assume so much, worry so much, react so violently so far from our shores, when other nations play it cool? We must remain strong and be prepared to defend and help the peoples of this hemisphere. We will find this and our own internal problems sufficient to mark the limits of our power...
Alarmed by "the escalation of emotions," a group of prominent Berlin churchmen published an open letter to their fellow citizens, urging everyone to cool down. Their pleas are being ignored. Schütz's own Social Democratic Party is on the point of expelling its left wing, some of whose members took part in the student march. With widespread popular support, right-wing politicians of all parties have begun a campaign to ban the radical student organizations and expel their leaders from the city-an action that would only drive the leftists underground. Even more ominous, the extreme right...
...have asked the Soviet Union to put pressure on the Hanoi government for the release of Ambassador Bunker, as well as Mrs. Charles Percy. Until such time as their release is effected, I can only reiterate the stand taken by Mr. Rusk: 'My strong advice to Hanoi is to cool it. There have been enough of these incidents...
Defusing Emotions. The causes are inevitably complex and often irrational. Officials in some of the tense cities are simply trying to defuse emotions. Many superintendents find that one quick way to cool matters is to offer courses in Negro history or stress Negro cultural contributions in standard courses. In Philadelphia, some Negroes demanded that students be permitted to wear African dress to class; the administrators agreed, and that helped soothe the situation, although only three students actually donned the garb. Philadelphia now pays Negro youngsters and adult Negro leaders to attend suburban retreats, where they sound off their grievances...
...Apes "The monkey," said Henry Ward Beecher, "is an organized sarcasm upon the human race." The sarcasm is seldom allowed to speak for itself in this film about a space odyssey that goes awry and crash-lands three astronauts on an unknown planet. They have been traveling for a cool millennium or so, but their craft has been zooming along at close to the speed of light, and so-in accordance with Einstein's Time-Dilation Theory-they have scarcely aged, save for some grey in their beards. At first, all they find is sand, but soon they stumble...