Word: coolest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...those dark moments of panic, the coolest men aboard were four U.S. Army chaplains-1st Lieuts. Clark V. Poling (Reformed Church in America), Alexander D. Goode (Jewish), John P. Washington (Catholic), George L. Fox (Methodist). The four chaplains led the men to boxes of life jackets, passed them out to the soldiers with boat-drill precision. When the boxes were empty, the four chaplains quietly slipped off their own precious life preservers, put them on four young G.I.s and told them to jump...
...Association shipped them out express coolest, but offered no suggestions about possible uses. That is up to the purchaser. It is obvious they cannot be used as writing tables...