Word: cooler
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Lord Vansittart, longtime head of Britain's Foreign Service: "May I repeat for the ninth time what I said so often in Hitler's day-those who ask to be deceived must not grumble if they are gratified." There was even talk of canceling the invitation, but cooler heads persuaded everyone that if Whitehall really put its talents to being coolly cordial, even old : Siberia hands"would get the idea...
...Stopped by Senegalese troops with fixed bayonets, McHale was prodded off to the commissariat by a young French machine gunner with an itchy finger. When the correspondent showed his press pass, the nervous Frenchman snapped:"That doesn't mean a thing-this is war!" At the commissariat, luckily, cooler heads prevailed: McHale was released after a 15-minute grilling...
...corner of the National Affairs bullpen is the most prized copy boy station in our editorial department. It is furnished with a comfortable chair, phone, water cooler, a typewriter and plenty of copy paper. And it is partly closed off by a massive pillar. In the privacy of this corner, a succession of young men have daydreamed, read, studied college textbooks or pecked hopefully at the typewriter between errands for the editor, the writers and the researchers in the N.A. section...
When Eva looks at an airplane in total darkness, the hot engine parts may show up yellow while the cold wings look blue. A heated house is visible against its cooler background, and factory chimneys stand out conspicuously with trails of hot gas. The heat-pictures on the film are bright enough to be photographed in black and white or color with an ordinary camera. A picture can be erased by heating the film momentarily and evaporating all the oil. In about two seconds the oil film forms again, ready for another picture...
...Turks gave the Russian hints a cooler reception. Even so, a Turkish editor, hoping the West might take notice, was reminded of an old proverb: "The baby that does not cry does not get the milk...