Word: coolness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ambassador on the appointed day, the hotel was jammed with a record turnout of 2,520 cheering California Republicans. Absent: Governor Knight, Knight's Lieutenant Governor Harold J. Powers and Knight's State G.O.P. Chairman Thomas W. Caldecott. Goody Knight's telegraphed message was so obviously cool that Luncheon Chairman Krehbiel would not read it out or show it to reporters...
...Pardoll signals for the house lights to be turned down. A stagehand grips the rope triggering the hydraulic mechanism that controls the curtain. Other stagehands are standing immobile in the wings. It is very quiet and cool. The opera is poised for flight...
...with the stranger, a wiry man in a bright green shirt and red shorts. The superintendent wrenched a rusty, four-inch clasp knife out of his hand, threw him to the ground and whisked him off to the police station before the angry crowd could get at him. Nehru, cool as ice, barely stopped smiling at the crowd and pressing his palms together in the traditional Hindu greeting. "You don't want to take risks?" he told his agitated followers. "Then don't take them." Nehru thought that the would-be assassin, a 33-year-old Hindu ricksha...
...must have been referring to the old-time machines which use block ice to cool their boor," Cronin added. "Our machines are refrigerated and are made of stainless steel...
...First use of the chemical (trade name: Sylflex) will be for shoes. The Charles A. Eaton Co. will use it on golf shoes; Endicott Johnson Shoe Corp. will try it on a combination work-and-sports boot. Treated shoes will shed water, still allow air to come through to cool the foot...