Word: coolness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Washington, World War II hero Maynard H. ("Snuffy") Smith, 41, who won the Medal of Honor for some cool-headed shooting and lifesaving on an Eighth Air Force bomber, was sentenced to ten days in jail for turning in a false report in a suicide hoax. Smith, it was claimed, was trying for some publicity to help boost his chances for becoming governor of Virginia. The hoax: as a young mother pretended to jump from the sixth floor of a Y.W.C.A. building, Snuffy bravely crawled out on the ledge and "persuaded" her to come back...
Student support of similarity liberal organizations seems also to be waning. Only four members attended the Peace Council's policy meeting last week, and the council-sponsored speech by John A. Kingsbury, National Chairman of the Council of American Soviet Friendship, received a cool reception Tuesday. The Peace Council stands for "international peace through negotiation...
Lillie's leading characteristic-her cool, impeccably groomed air-is actually a very misleading one. For it suggests a drawing-room satirist of manners; then, with a sudden vocal or facial or bodily twist, she achieves something thoroughly low or superbly insane. This elegance punctuated with epilepsy can create effects as uproarious as they are unique...
...will be a few important differences. Where U.N.'s skyscraper slab rises 39 stories, UNESCO's is planned for only 16; where the U.N. spent $67.5 million, UNESCO expects to spent $7,678,000. Instead of adopting air-conditioning throughout, as U.N. did, UNESCO plans to keep cool by using blue glass sun screens down the south and east sides, with a sprinkler system to sluice dirt and dust off the glass. Instead of sitting on a solid, enclosed base, UNESCO will rest on ground-floor stilts such as France's famed Le Corbusier tried and failed...
...last week, the North Shore Baptist Church dedicated a novel new window. The design is simple enough-a small (6½ ft. high, 3½ ft. wide), bare cross with a single inscribed rosette on a plain background, done in soft rose, clear white, and a dozen shades of cool green. What makes it unique and arresting is that it consists of 446 pieces of beautifully cut and polished jade...