Word: coolness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...years as a Marine aviator, Colonel Frank Schwable (rhymes with able) had demonstrated time and again that he was a brave, cool and efficient fighting man. As he took the stand before a court of inquiry at Arlington, Va. last week, the ribbons on his tunic bore testimony to an honorable career as a regular-as a pilot in Nicaragua, as combat commander of a nightfighter squadron in World War II, as chief of staff of the First Marine Aircraft Wing during the Korean war. But all this simply complicated the dreadful dilemma of the high-ranking officers...
First Suspicion. In a cool, well-modulated voice, she explained that two days before Wilma's death, Ugo ordered her to go back to Milan. "When I asked him why, he said that he had a hunting date in Capocotto with Piero Piccioni." Three days later she returned to Rome, and she and Ugo drove down to the hunting lodge. There the gamekeeper's wife remarked that she had seen Wilma's body and was surprised that it was not swollen or battered. Anna Maria Caglio felt a sudden suspicion. She thought back to a time three...
Learning by cable of the flap that his statement had created at home, St. Laurent tried to cool matters off at a Tokyo press conference. He explained that he had not meant to imply that the Chinese people had freely chosen the present Communist government. All he had in mind in discussing future diplomatic dealings with Red China was some arrangement to enable representatives of the West to deal directly with the Communist regime on matters affecting China...
...opening address at Caracas, Dulles with cool logic coupled his case for joint anti-Communist measures ("There is not a single country in this hemisphere which has not been penetrated by the apparatus of international Communism operating under orders from Moscow") with the prospect of U.S. economic cooperation (more technical aid, continued Export-Import Bank loans, no price ceilings on coffee). The Secretary made no reference to Guatemala, the one country where Communists are gaining steadily in influence...
...Cooled. In Appleton, Wis., charged with selling adulterated milk, Dairyman Vernon Ferron explained that he had "just put a couple of quarts of water in to cool the milk," paid a $25 fine...