Word: coolness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...could be expected: among farmers. Although the prices of dairy products and basic crops, e.g., wheat, are supported by the Federal Government, drought and falling livestock prices have brought a great outcry from the farm belt. Farm income has been generally falling since 1947, but that fact does not cool the farmer's ire in 1953. Shrill cries of protest have arisen, and they are directed at one man: Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson...
...Cool Head, Ready Smile. It is deemed highly improper for a man to announce openly that he wants to be President. There are no campaign speeches, no posters, no sound trucks. The approved method of campaigning is for a candidate to move through the legislative corridors, shaking innumerable hands, and murmuring that he would not dream of aspiring to the presidency. In 1920, the late great Georges Clemenceau said of the new President, Paul Deschanel, elected that year: "He has a beautiful future behind...
Chicago Schooling. Habitually less concerned than Americans about the menace of international Communism, the British had hoped by the example of good manners and management to cool off the hothead East Indian and Negro leaders elected in backward Guiana. But the crown-appointed governor, Sir Alfred Savage, soon found that the Reds of the victorious People's Progressive Party, holding 18 of 24 seats in the legislature, were too hot to handle. Their Premier was a 33-year-old East Indian dentist named Cheddi Jagan (rhymes with pagan), a rapid-fire orator in both English and Creolise (an abused...
...expert comedy when Actress Ruth Gordon wrote it for the stage (as Years Ago, it ran for six months in 1947), and it is an expert comedy now that she has rewritten it for the screen. However, it is no more than expertise. Playwright-Actress Gordon is too cool a professional ever to let sentiment interfere with business, which in this instance, when she is writing about her own girlhood, means that a true feeling is never allowed to foul up a good line. Nevertheless, The Actress offers an unusually pleasant evening at the movies...
...American Painting) has drawn their hero-and quartered him. His is the most carefully researched study of the Arnold-André story so far published, more searching even than the late Carl Van Doren's Secret History of the American Revolution, which showed Arnold for what he was. Cool, reasoned, and highly readable, The Traitor and the Spy may well stand as the last word on the subject...