Word: coolness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Driving up Macao's Rua Padre Antonio one cool, drizzly morning a few weeks ago, two youths found their way deliberately blocked by a pedicab. At that moment, three men forced themselves into the car and, at pistol point, made the youths drive on to an empty bicycle shop on a lonely street. Here the kidnapers hauled them out, stuck oranges into their mouths, blindfolded, trussed and loaded them into gunny sacks, dumped them into a couple of rickshas. Singing gay Cantonese songs to drown out any possible outcry, the men pulled the rickshas to an empty house...
...Cooled. An air-cooled central home air conditioner was put on the market by Chrysler Corp.'s Airtemp division. Designed especially for areas where water scarcity makes water-cooled conditioners impractical, the unit brings in outside air to cool the refrigerant (Freon), needs no water piping. Price...
...friends-a good many of them bebop-talking actors, waitresses and artists-Marlon Brando, 29, is "the most," a "cool cat" off stage or on. If he has a reputation for being a "character," it is only because he dislikes conformity, either in his professional or private life...
...water dripping from a faucet." He also dislikes some of the character-diluting cutting that moviemakers do. One final unkind cut in Caesar: "During the battle-I've forgotten the lines-where Octavius says something like 'Man, what's happening?' and I say 'Cool, Dick...
...Stockwell learned to parrot a Marxian view of the news, and to give an interpretation of his missionary life as an act of aggression against the Communist government". "I admitted," he later wrote, "that my speaking and writing had made the Chinese friendly to the United States and cool to revolutionary doctrine . . . and that if this was what they meant when they said I was a spy, then I would have to admit that I was a spy, a missionary...