Word: cooler
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Brother, Ike grins down from almost every wall in the office. Pictures of Ike, in well-tailored civics, in a cap and gown, and in uniform, provide the only decorations in the rooms. One three by five foot picture shows his head alone, smiling at a misplaced water cooler, his molars half as big as a fist...
...Organizations, on hand for their 13th convention. In earlier years, C.I.O. conventions sometimes left a trail of broken chairs, smashed ash trays, torn tablecloths and echoes of roaring battles on the convention floor. But now the hairlines were drawing back, the waistlines were pushing forward and the blood was cooler...
Since then, the juilliard has won more & more friends. The next year they revived the neglected quartets of Arnold Schoenberg. Dimitri Mitropoulos, conductor of the New York Philharmonic-Symphony, impulsively pronounced them "the greatest quartet in the world." The. Juilliard itself is a bit cooler about its own quality. But last week, after a series of ten Mozart quartets in Manhattan, the quartet was warming toward itself. They were mildly criticized for bringing a thought too much of their own 20th Century exuberance to Mozart's 18th Century brand. But as Violinist Robert Mann put it: "We think...
Meanwhile, across the Common in Fay House, cooler heads realized the growing momentum of a potential fiasco. Should the student council slap a ceiling on campaign expenditure? What about the girl who didn't know you were allowed to campaign? What about the girl who didn't get an idea in time? And what about the girl who didn't get an idea...
Just when cooler heads in the Administration had about decided to forget the whole thing, up jumped Connecticut's Democratic Brien McMahon last week to wave excitedly at an old dragon. Joined by Oregon's Republican maverick, Wayne Morse, McMahon presented a resolution: the Foreign Relations Committee should spend $50,000 to find out whether any attempt had been made by any group representing Nationalist China to influence U.S. foreign policy since Pearl Harbor...