Word: cooling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...with equal mystical power. Liang recalls feeling guilt for nursery school wrondoing until told, "Chairman Mao has forgiven you." Later he goes on a pilgrimage to the civil war mountain stronghold of Mao, and on another to Peking, where he glimpses the party leader, Far from presenting a cool, outsider's perspective, or reactionary scorn, Liang's descriptions of these journeys are filled with personal pleasure and excitement...
Harvard arrived 45 minutes before match time and immediately took the courts to get used to the cool temperatures and establish its rails. "Penn likes to start early and grab control of a match before the visiting team has a chance to get used to the courts," team manager Tom Bator said "So it was important that they get on the courts quickly...
This week IRAS begins the first formal infrared survey of the entire sky, which should become an important guide for future observations. Before it exhausts its helium supply, the telescope is expected to spot as many as a million heavenly objects. IRAS will observe young cool stars now hidden behind veils of tiny dust particles that block ordinary light. It will also study old stars near the end of their lives. Such observations could help clarify the mysteries of stellar birth and death. Closer to home, it may spot the long-sought Planet X, which some astronomers suspect is lurking...
Viewed that way, it is not without its value. The most important revelation in Reagan's speech may have been its mood and manner, the theme of bipartisanship that ran through it. The absence of accusation imparted a tone of cool reason. If we can believe this subtle melody, then Reagan may at last be ready to be President of all the people, not just of Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger and Senator Jesse Helms...
...roles, Pug Henry was supposed to be solid and authoritative enough to stand alongside Presidents, Prime Ministers and dictators, yet young enough, 50 or so, to look like a rising naval officer. According to Wouk's book, he should also be shorter than his wife. The choice: the cool, laconic Mitchum, who is 65 and 6 ft. 1 in., but radiates authority with every word he does not speak...