Word: coolness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dream Competitor." During the whole exhausting two-day grind that a decathlon lasts, Mathias is as cool and impersonal as a coach directing a football team, constantly checking in his mind the complicated point score, deciding when to push himself to the limit, when to hold back to conserve his energy. Even when he was a green 17-year-old at the 1948 Olympics, he steadfastly refused to take his turn at the pole vault until the bar was set at 10 feet. He saw no point in wasting his energy on heights he was sure he could clear...
Nothing halted Maureen's progress. Two of her early-round British opponents crisply praised Maureen's cannonball abandon, but also felt compelled to chalk up part of their defeats to the heat. The heat made no difference to Killer Connolly. Cool and unperturbed, despite a painfully sore shoulder, she kept dancing her little baseline jig, running her rivals ragged with hard-hit placements, only occasionally coming to the net to volley...
...Russia which for the past five years has formed the heart of U.S. policy. Containment is Kennan's catchword. As "Mr. X" writing in Foreign Affairs in 1947, he argued that Russia would not risk war to attain its expansionist objectives, that it could be checked by cool-headed applications of U.S. strength at points around the perimeter, and that ultimately the "seeds of decay" inherent in the Soviet dictatorship would destroy its threat to the democratic world...
...theory this kind of analysis called for a cool foreign policy; in practice it encouraged a complacent one. It seemed to say that time was on the side of the U.S. and its allies. Last week George Kennan was feeling not a bit complacent. Some hate-Americanisms in the Soviet press during Kennan's first six weeks...
Hogan, always a fast finisher, was in his favorite role as a pursuer. Boros teed off first for the final round, played with a cool nonchalance that amazed the gallery. Chomping blades of grass, swigging Cokes, making shots with a cigarette dangling from his lips, the former Connecticut amateur constantly extricated himself from trouble. Gasped one sweating spectator: "He looks cooler than the gallery...