Word: coolness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...more years than Senator McCarthy's two junketing gumshoes have been out of school." (Cohn and Schine are both 26 years old.) The Schnuffler telephoned Washington frequently, interviewed scores of anonymous Germans and Austrians, refused all social overtures of the press. Though reporters were startled, Cohn remained cool and collected when his wristwatch alarm went off in the midst of a Vienna press conference. By then it was almost time for the Schnuffler to leave Europe, and U.S. Information Service employees could go back to getting some work done...
...Nations), temperatures in the House were reduced to 66°. To avoid chilly drafts, engineers will henceforth release extra-warm air into the empty lobbies whenever the chamber's doors are flung open at voting time. Beamed Climatologist Markham: "We are . . . approximating our aim-warm feet and cool heads...
...money ran out; when a son was born and the registrar refused to enter the prince's name as father, Carol wrote a letter to Zizi acknowledging his parenthood and vowing undying love. The vow lasted one year, until Queen Marie found her impoverished son a royal match: cool, blonde Princess Helen of Greece. In due course Prince Michael was born...
After the first few days of the show, Boston seemed pretty cool in its reactions. Some gallerygoers complained about Sutherland's deliberately ungainly compositions and harsh colors, wondered "what goes on in the head of a man who's always painting grasshoppers." Said an old lady, back for a second look at his gory Crucifixion: "I dreamt about it last night, and it's haunted me ever since." But for Sutherland fans it was a great moment. Said one student: "It's like meeting a fabulous relative you've always heard about but never...
...soldiers God. . . I heard the order." Three days later, Raymond Radiguet died. He was 20. Age is nothing," he had written. "All great poets have written at seventeen. The greatest are those who succeed in making one forget it." Radiguet can make a reader forget everything but the cool grace of his art, in which he is a cameoist of sensibilities, a Watteau of the heart...