Word: coolness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Republican Convention, a delegate in 1944, an alternate in 1948. As a convention veteran, he knows the emotional crises that can beset the delegate's mind. "Let us suppose that one man has 560 votes and the other 550. That's when you have to keep cool. You can't be huff-huffed into a wrong decision...
...Burns volunteered that the reunion was "colossal." But she would rather the committee had brought some cool Montana weather east for the week...
Mamie, with a cool eye for business, was a great help. When Ike was getting ready to start out on one of his handshaking tours Mamie told him: "Tell the girls-I mean the ladies-to come on back here and I'll talk to them." A man from Missouri rode up to the sixth floor of the Sunflower to report proudly that Missouri probably would go 22 for Ike and four for Taft. Said Mamie: "What's the matter with those four? Let's work on them...
...late afternoon crowds pushed and jostled past the well-stocked shops of the Kurfurstendamm, or loafed in its sidewalk cafes over mountainous sundaes and cool drinks. The Busch Circus, set up in tents nearby, advertised a "Swedish Tarzan" and eight ferocious tigers. Along Onkel Tom Strasse* in the U.S. sector, Berliners strolled through a fragrant snowfall of locust blossoms. Plump, healthy-looking children cavorted atop West Berlin's "Mountain of Tears," a huge pile of rubble...
...Communist Dictator Mao Tse-tung offered to let 14 Indian observers peek behind the fence (India had allowed a Red Chinese "good will" mission to visit New Delhi last year). Prime Minister Nehru, who is fascinated by the New China, gladly sent the mission, but carefully staffed it with cool-headed observers whose impressions he could trust, as he no longer trusts his credulous ambassador, K. M. Panikkar, now recalled home. As chief delegate he chose his closest confidante and most recent envoy to Washington: his sister, Mme. Pandit...