Word: cooling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hours, as the state that nurtured Abraham Lincoln prepared to vote, electronic vignettes of all the contenders. John Anderson, billed as the candidate of ideas, was seen soaring and swooping, eyes nearly closed in his passion, resembling no one so much as the late Billy Sunday. George Bush, the cool Ivy Leaguer, appeared with his neck veins protruding, finger wagging, voice in upper fortissimo. Jimmy Carter was there too, via the tube, talking calmly from the White House as the world he helped to create seemed to be collapsing around...
...they could have brought Ford in to cool things down...
Baker's store carries an assortment of T shirts bearing legends like "Happiness is a cool reactor" and "Hell no, we won't glow" that are selling well. Joyce Yinger has an even bigger stock of nuclear memorabilia. In addition to T shirts, she has ceramic lamps shaped like cooling towers, T.M.I. belt buckles, and even a gag T.M.I. vasectomy kit. "Business was just great last summer," she said. "It'll pick up again when the tourists start coming." And once the weather starts to clear, visitors should be descending upon the area, if what happened last...
...Bonn official put it, both men "felt strongly that they had to protect Western Europe's interests." Said a French diplomat in West Germany: "The Soviets horribly miscalculated in Afghanistan. Carter reacted too rashly. Schmidt and Giscard are the fellows who are trying to keep a cool head...
...forecasters. It is an odd and specialized calling: not exactly journalism, not exactly meteorology, not exactly soothsaying, not exactly show business, but parts of all four. TV weathercasters have been much mocked for their polyester jocularity, for what seem bizarrely pseudo-scientific discourses to explain that it will be cool and windy tomorrow. It is, critics say, the baton twirling of TV news...