Word: coolness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Then came a hitch. As Ljubodrag Djuric, secretary general of the federal government, rambled through a speech dealing with the morals of party members, some comrades began making rude comments from the floor. Comrade Djuric tried to keep cool, but he did not succeed. "Seeing that you do not want me to go on," he shouted, "then I hereby accuse Comrade Petar Stambolic of stealing my wife." The congress was stunned: Comrade Stambolic, sitting stone-faced on the platform behind Djuric, is no less a personage than the Premier of Serbia and one of Tito's closest friends. Comrade...
After about five minutes, Mrs. Lucas told the doctor that Billy's eyes were beginning to change. The doctor, a cool & collected type, scarcely looked up from his brain-wave charts. It was too soon for any change, he said; that would take at least half an hour. After ten minutes, Mrs. Lucas began to feel tension in Billy's usually limp muscles. The doctor said it was her imagination. After 15 minutes, she insisted that the doctor look at Billy, who was really "coming to life." Still skeptical, the doctor snapped his fingers beside Billy...
...decided early in the campaign that Ike would ask for the election of the whole Republican ticket in each state. Ike did not endorse McCarthy until the voters of Wisconsin made him the Republican nominee. Considering McCarthy's smashing primary victory, Eisenhower gave him, by any political standard, cool, correct treatment. In Green Bay, Wis. Ike stressed the difference between McCarthy and himself, but added that they differed on "method," not "objectives," i.e., uprooting of Communism in Government. In his big Milwaukee speech, in which he endorsed the entire Republican ticket in Wisconsin, Eisenhower did not mention McCarthy...
Ruiz Pineda escaped from a junta prison after five months. Finding himself the ranking leader of the outlawed party, he went underground. Cool-headed Ruiz Pineda seemed to thrive on his dangerous life, moving around Caracas at night, seldom sleeping two days in the same house, turning out clandestine newspapers, meeting his lieutenants and bragging of his sixth sense for danger...
...Ford mechanic with the romantic idea of becoming self-supporting and marrying her. Grandfather said no, however, and took up the matter with Henry Ford, as one monarch to another. Suddenly Lulu found himself in a Ford plant in Argentina to "cool...