Word: coolness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cool Criticism. Talbott was followed in the witness chair by outgoing Air Force Chief of Staff Hoyt Vandenberg, the man principally responsible for the rise of air power to predominance in U.S. strategic planning. Vandenberg spent the better part of three days ticking off criticisms of the Wilson budget in cool, unemotional tones...
...sagged to almost nothing, something had to be done. The girls solved the problem. The thing to do, they decided, was to make the company let them wear shorts at work. The company agreed and promised, furthermore, to lug 1,600 Ibs. of ice into the room daily to cool the place. The girls went contentedly back to work. Next day, after all was said and done, only six of them wore shorts...
...your stomach disputes you, lie down and pacify it with cool thoughts...
Even the cheapest of the houses are the stuff of Indian dreams. Made of clay brick and concrete slabs they are to cost only $620 apiece, have two rooms, a separate bathroom and lavatory, a porch, a courtyard garden and a separate kitchen with running water. To keep cool in summer and warm in winter, each house will have what Le Corbusier calls "sunbreakers" - deeply recessed windows that will keep out the sun's hot rays when it is directly overhead, but will allow them to enter when the sun moves southward later in the year...
Hothead. In Leeds, England, Edna Illingworth got a divorce after testifying that her husband Richard 1) tied her up in the cellar, 2) bound her hands to a nail above her head, and 3) doused her with a bucketful of water "to cool...