Word: cooling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...other the nation's defenses would be adequate to cope with Russia's bomb. Anyhow, that too was something to worry about later on; the possible personal consequences were hard to visualize. It took a while, especially in the heat of the baseball pennant races and the cool beauty of the early autumn, for the full meaning of either situation to sink...
...great steel mills lay cool and dead and some 500,000 steelworkers hit the streets. Another 500,000 would be called out of steel-fabricating plants the minute Philip Murray thought the right strategic moment had come. In a slower, creeping fashion-if the shutdown lengthened-unemployment would spread to railroads, auto plants, thousands of steel-dependent factories. In the wink of an eye last week, the nation's economic backbone was paralyzed by the first industry-wide steel strike since the walkout...
...Mate for Toodie. Plain Londoners slipped around a corner to drop a sentimental tear into a cool pint, and Mayfair retired to its cocktails to discuss another Cinderella. She was a pretty, Boston-bred...
...Cool and confident in his superior strength and wisdom one day last week, Henri Villette, a 67-year-old barrelmaker of Alencon, clapped an unwanted kitten into a musette bag and set out for the Sarthe River to drown it. On the river's bank he slipped and fell. The kitten crawled to safety. Henri's drowned body was found later by local firemen...
...support program." With these politicking words for the folks on the farm, Michigan's Republican Congressman Jesse Wolcott, 28 years in Congress as "a friend of the farmer," last week suggested a bill to raise the CCC's borrowing power to $5.7 billion, an increase of a cool $1 billion...