Word: cooling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...counting proceeded in the cool confines of the Assembly building, each vote recorded for Marcos added anger and outrage to the tension building across the far-flung archipelago. Tentatively but with increasing signs of determination, Aquino supporters were starting to take their frustrations into the streets. Wav- ing clenched fists and chanting "Fight! Fight!," thousands of Filipinos marched in a 13-mile procession through the capital. They escorted the flag-draped coffin of Evelio Javier, 43, a regional Aquino campaign chairman who had been brutally gunned down days earlier in the province of Antique. Though far smaller in scale...
...plotters of the Mavericks' curve note that the N.B.A.'s arrival nearly coincided with Quarterback Roger Staubach's departure. As Replacement Danny White began to lose The Big One, in the pecking order of the city disappointing favorites gave ground to surprising underdogs, and loud emotions started to overtake cool indifference. Suddenly Texas became basketball territory. Eventually the Mavericks may be required to win a championship, but for now Dallas would be satisfied with becoming the fourth team in league history to improve its record each season for five years...
...once again, the U.S. government is inflexible to reasonable compromise where Central America is concerned. The Latin American ministers met with a cool response from Shultz last month in Washington. The Reagan Administration refuses to alter its unremitting campaign against Nicaragua. As one leading official is reported to have said, "Contadora's document of objectives includes pluralism, democracy, and reconciliation. How do you get the Sandinist Communists to agree with that? The answer seems to me clear, and it is pressure." Military pressure, of course...
...father would not be as receptive, Kelly thinks, explaining, "It's the archetypal kind of thing dads don't go for. He's pretty cool, but I don't want to press my luck...
...Teresa's hospice in the Calcutta neighborhood of Kalighat was the high point of the first phase of the Pope's ten-day, 14- city tour of India, which ends this week. Although John Paul was treated with respect and courtesy at every turn, the reception was often unmistakably cool. Tight security measures cramped the Pontiff's usual hand-pressing style, but police cordons could not wholly explain the disappointing turnout at stops along his route. Indian political and non-Christian religious leaders sometimes strained to put a distance between themselves and the spiritual leader of the Roman Catholic Church...