Word: coolest
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Measure of Emotions. Thurmond claimed that he might win as many as 140 electoral votes. This was grossly exaggerated and he knew it. By the best expert reckoning, he would not get North Carolina, which was cool to all the candidates and coolest to a third-party candidate. He would not get Arkansas, although he might have enough strength there to spoil an outside chance for Dewey. He would not win Florida, Kentucky or Virginia, but he might get just enough there to give those states to Dewey. He was a fair bet to win Georgia and Louisiana, a very...
Last week, little (137 Ibs.) Ben Hogan showed up in Los Angeles (along with 170 others) to play in the U.S. Open. He seemed the coolest of the lot. As always, his face was as phlegmatic as an oldtime faro dealer's.* The long Riviera golf course was to his advantage. Although he insists that "There's no such thing as a course that fits a man's playing style," the boys called Riviera "Hogan's Alley." He had won two Los Angeles Opens there in the past two years...
...Charles Blagden ... went into a room where the heat was 1° or 2° above 260° F., and remained eight minutes in this situation, frequently walking about to all the different parts of the room, but standing still most of the time in the coolest spot where the heat was above...
...lines. He told an awesome story of the destruction wreaked by U.S. airmen on German transport: the freight train on which he started toward Germany had taken eleven days to cover 80 miles, had three different locomotives on the journey. Reported a fellow fugitive: Jock was the coolest of all the prisoners, keeping up a blow-by-blow description of U.S. planes strafing the train. In sportsmanlike fashion, Whitney started a poker game in the boxcar, lost consistently. Jock said that he had such a good time he nearly forgot to escape...
Also very much on the social side, we've been doin' a little extracurricular snoopin' to try to arrange a mixed swim at the Natatorium some evening. The idea is Ken Schuette's and we think it's the coolest idea yet. Mebbe more later on same...