Word: cooling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...onetime guerrilla surprised many critics by managing his new position with competence and cool. He met four African leaders in the hope of regaining their diplomatic recognition of Israel, and made four trips to Western Europe to argue against the European Community's 1980 Venice Declaration, which recognized the Palestine Liberation Organization and called for a Palestinian state. He also struck up what one aide calls an "instant chemistry" with U.S. Secretary of State George Shultz. Shamir's only major blemish appeared last February when the Kahan commission of inquiry reprimanded him severely for having failed to verify...
President Horner echoed Bok, nothing that there are more career options than "doctor lawyer, or failure." Horner concluded her remarks with her traditional warning against mayonnaise malaise--. "Keep cool but do not freeze...
...butcher knife shining against her roommate's throat. Her roommate's pinched, ashen face. A man in a blue nylon jacket and sneakers holding the knife. The stranger ordered Young to turn over onto her stomach and keep her face to the wall. For three hours on that cool night three months ago, he repeatedly raped and sodomized Young as her roommate lay trembling on the floor beside them...
This English version of a cool but fascinating epic seems flawless. (Fitzgerald, 72, has already done superb modern translations of The Iliad and The Odyssey.) But such judgments are ephemeral...
...this year's rash of cases? One likely culprit is the weather, says Dr. Jack Poland of the Centers for Disease Control's regional office in Fort Collins, Colo. Because of a particularly cool and wet spring, plague-carrying squirrels, prairie dogs and other rodents proliferated. So did the fleas that spread the disease to wild animals and eventually to humans...