Word: coolness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Third man Dave Hedberg came from behind to tie Keith Redner of the Lord Jeffs. Hedberg at one point stood four down, but he remained cool, winning the last two holes, to gain the draw...
While the "cool" spectators in the bleachers sat on their hands, Lewis & Johnson dished up heated samplings of the rumbling boogie-woogie that they made popular in the '30s. Standout: Honky Tank Train, which 325-lb. Lux Lewis once pounded out with such energy that the piano collapsed into...
...Time of the Assassins, Novelist Godfrey Blunden tells how the people of Kharkov learned this lesson during the 16 months of the first Nazi occupation. The tone of the story is cool, almost detached, but its tragic quality comes through no less clearly for that. Author Blunden has obviously pondered his War and Peace; like Tolstoy, though on a far more modest scale, he has tried to fit a human drama into the frame of contemporary history...
What held these two utterly different, passionately neurotic human beings together? The Authors Hanson, themselves a husband & wife team, approach the racked double bed of the Carlyle marriage with the serenity of Harley Street specialists, noting every hypochondriacal toss, turn and outburst with cool professional attention. They point out the more admirable aspects of the case-Jane's struggle to put up with her husband's cantankerous restlessness, her bottomless faith in his genius; Thomas' "absolutely unseducible" loyalty to his wife, his habit of rising to grave occasions with awe-inspiring kindliness...
Cloudy and cool with occasional rain Monday. Highest temperature in the upper 50s. Southeasterly winds...