Word: coolness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...York's dressy, blue-blooded Republican Newbold Morris has been having a terrible time with a similar embarrassment-a connection (TIME, March 17) with the Chinese tanker scandal. But when he sat down last week to be questioned by Senate investigators, he seemed determined to keep cool, smile, smile, smile, let superior reason (his) prevail, and thus sweep all before him. Result: he alternated between anger, self-pity, exaggerated politeness and flippancy...
Moonlight slithered down through the cool breeze that came off the Mediterranean to toy with Pandora's the small yacht which nestled at anchor in the cove below...
...Nevada's Pat McCarran, a cool-to-Truman Democrat, chairman of the Senate's Internal Security subcommittee, announced that he favors the Southern Democrats' candidate, Senator Richard B. Russell of Georgia, "because first of all he has shown a determination to clean Communists and subversives and fellow travelers out of the Federal Government...
...Dwyer obeyed. What makes this especially good stuff from the point of view of U.S.A. Confidential is that three of the parties involved are dead and therefore in no position to bring libel suits, and the fourth is conveniently south of the border. The boys' hot journalism tends to cool on second look...
...keep abreast of the soaring U.S. birth rate, Wood took a cool and calculated gamble six years ago. While other merchandisers pulled in their horns in fear of the "inevitable" postwar recession, Wood launched the greatest expansion in merchandising history. He blueprinted the spending of $300 million out of earnings to open 92 new Sears stores in the U.S. and Latin America, and enlarged and shifted the locations of 212 more. If the recession had come, Sears would have been in deep trouble. But Wood's faith in the expanding American economy-aided by the backlog of demand...