Word: coolers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Sadat first met Nasser in 1938, when both men were lieutenants in the army. At the time, Sadat was a hothead who schemed and dreamed about blowing up British installations; Nasser was the cooler one who dissuaded him from such wild plots. With others, the two soldiers formed the nucleus of what became the Free Officers' Committee, which eventually ousted King Farouk in 1952. For all his antimonarchical zeal, Sadat almost missed the coup. On the night that it was scheduled to take place, Sadat somehow failed to receive his tip-off message and spent the evening...
...When I have to face an international crisis, I have what it takes," he said. "The tougher it gets, the cooler...
...years ago, a cocky sophomore, Jimmy Stoeckel, started against the Big Green and almost brought Harvard a victory over the Hanover marauders with some unheard of passing heroics. But fate willed that one away in the last seconds, and a Ted Perry field goal sent me to the cooler again...
...mood of the Louisville delegates was considerably cooler than that of the General Convention in Seattle six years ago, when the Episcopalians ebulliently adopted a controversial special program to aid racial minorities and approved a constitutional change to allow women to be seated in the House of Deputies. The 1970 convention in Houston went on to approve the ordination of women as deacons, a critical step toward eventual ordination of female priests. But such changes did not sit well with many of the church's 3,400,000 members. Indeed, criticism of Presiding Bishop John E. Hines, an outspoken...
...days are noticeably cooler than only a few weeks ago, and, for many, sleep finally comes easily at night. Autumn has arrived--a time for inflating the presidential pigskin. The season of year has proved enough to raise the spirits of the nation's number one football fan. Mr. Nixon, we are told, is on the rebound...