Word: coolness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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ACROSS the wind-blown plains of eastern Washington, up through the cool, forested hills of northern-Idaho and the mountains and finger valleys of western Montana, men talk in frontier terms of manifest destiny, and call their northwest U.S. land an Inland Empire. It is a towering land, with long, lonely reaches and stupendous, high-country scenery, proud, self-assured and close to its pioneer beginnings. A geographic unit, hemmed by natural barriers, it once almost became a state (as big as all New England, New York, Delaware and Maryland) called Lincoln. Congress approved in 1886, but Grover Cleveland pocket...
...play is unsatisfying; it lacks the right touch and tone. Its setup calls for something cool, smooth, quietly disdainful; far too often it is given something Broadwayish and breezy-stretches in which grown-men exchange banter about sex and a scene of disheveled, morning-after, mail-order farce. There is too palpable an air of We Aim To Please about it, and of aiming to please the very far from fussy...
...once a nonlegal delegation discussed the case with President Pusey. The result of these goings on was a letter from the President to members of the Association deploring the ill-will, outlining the concessions he and the Fellows had made, and pleading for confidence. The reaction was as cool as the air conditioning in the new herbarium. The two directors, however, resigned from the Association at this failure...
...only to be thwarted in court after a proxy battle with Cleveland Financier Cyrus Eaton, who then controlled 19% of Youngstown stock. This year, at 78, Bethlehem's Chairman Grace announced that Bessie and Youngstown were again planning to merge. Last week the Justice Department, which has been cool to the plan all along (TIME, Sept. 13), flatly said no to Bessie...
...capacity for compromising genially with circumstances" that gave Melbourne his first principle&151:to let people alone. "If we are to have a prevailing religion," Melbourne told the world urbanely, "let us have one that is cool and indifferent." He opposed popular education because, he said, "You may fill a person's head with nonsense which may be impossible ever to get out again." When he became Prime Minister, he never made a political or religious appointment until he was obliged to, and was annoyed when death forced his hand. "Damn it! Another bishop dead!" he would sigh...