Word: coolest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...gave the orders: "Put up your hands-I'll kill ya." Then, she would give instructions to her jittery confederates in a calm, soft voice: "Take him to the back room and make him lie down . . . You get the money." Police marked Maggie as one of the coolest dames on the books...
Wearing a vest as usual, Dwight Eisenhower seemed to be the coolest person in the room. To a question implying that he "cannot refuse to run in 1956," he replied crisply: "That is a decision I have to reach for myself-some time." Asked if Congress should stay in session longer to act on his program, Ike responded with expression of mock horror, then grinned and said: "No, I just think that Congress, when it wants to, can do an awful lot in a very short time, and I am hopeful that they will do so." Coolly, the President answered...
...Goofed. In Chicago, after a federal agent had spent six months talking bop language to win his confidence before arresting him as a narcotics peddler, Willie Hill, 32, commented: "I'm real down. Here I thought that cat was the coolest. He turned out to be nowhere...
High & Dry. Chairman Watkins already had informed McCarthy's lawyer, youthful (34) Edward Bennett Williams, that the status of Senator Johnson, who had been named to the committee by the full Senate, was not subject to committee review. And Big Ed Johnson, one of the coolest customers in the Senate, had explained that, even as quoted, he had not said that he personally loathed McCarthy. Said Johnson: "In response to a telephone call from Denver, I agreed that some of my Democratic colleagues did not like Senator McCarthy."* But McCarthy was far from satisfied with the Watkins ruling...
...Dancer goes to sleep. For four hours, he snoozes in his stall, standing head to corner, his rear legs slightly crossed. "He can tell every time when it's a race day," says Winfrey, "but it doesn't bother him a bit. He's the coolest horse I've ever seen...