Word: coolness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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London was cold and wet, Kenya's jungles were hot and steaming, and New York was cool and clear. In all three places, TIME correspondents and editors were preparing to relax after a strenuous week...
...cool, logical recesses of their minds, Frenchmen knew they had neither the resources nor manpower to fill a European vacuum left by an unarmed Germany. They could not even defend themselves. The cream of their army (about 170,000 men) is in Indo-China. They have been able to supply the men and the equipment for only five of the ten divisions they were supposed to have ready for NATO by this year. The remaining five had only half their quota...
...Memories. But the hated Boche is not a subject for cool Gallic logic. Desperately, new Premier Edgar Faure, a fast-talking lawyer, bargained, hedged and pleaded. The Gaullists, with their old-fashioned militant nationalism and 118 votes, and the Communists, with their determination to sabotage and 101 votes, could not possibly be persuaded. The Socialists, whose 106 votes held the balance, were inclined to vote against the government. Even deputies from parties in Faure's own precarious coalition were caught up in old bitter memories, and such new irritations as the Saar question and West Germany's cocky...
...cool moon shone through the clouds, a British steamer, the Wing Sang, slid comfortably through the calm waters of Formosa Strait. She was on her regular run from Hong Kong to Formosa. The ship's 78 passengers were dressing for dinner or sipping cocktails. A Chinese lad of ten raced wide-eyed through the closing pages of Treasure Island...
...cool, monotonous voice, new Premier Edgar Faure painted a gloomy picture for the Assembly. Production has greatly increased since 1945, but, said Faure, "this improvement is insufficient to allow simultaneously building, modernizing, fighting the Indo-Chinese war, rearming and improving the standard of living...