Word: coolness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...called Chancellor of Gloom. His two predecessors, schoolmasterish Sir Stafford Cripps and perky Hugh Gaitskell won admiration for telling people the worst. Last week Butler did the same, frankly and specifically, and added to his reputation as one of the fastest rising Tories. No orator, but respected for the cool clarity of his mind, Butler told the House of Commons how the Tories propose to slash $420 million off Britain's imports-and that on top of the $980 million cut announced last November. This is 1952 austerity, Conservative style...
When the naval officer blew on his ice cream to cool it, the medics raised their eyebrows but did not laugh. Nor did they think he was wacky; he was just getting over a kind of fish poisoning which the medical profession calls ichthyotoxism. It is the only disorder doctors know of in which temperature reactions are reversed, e.g., a victim complains that his hot soup is cold, or that his ice water is scalding his tongue...
...walks in our pine woods . . . You used instinctively to give me your hands as we entered those woods, where it was darker, lonelier, and in the stillness our voices sounded loud and frightening. In this book I am again giving you my hands. I am leading you, not through cool pine woods, but up and up a narrow defile between bare and steep rocks from which in shadow things uncoil and slither away. It will be dark. Before you understand the meaning of the journey, I may not be there, my hands may have slipped from yours. It will...
...deal was, Slim Carmichael was as cool as ever. Once after he had brought a plane in safely on one wheel with one engine ripped off, he described the incident as "nothing to get excited about." Said Carmichael last week after signing the deal: "It was about as casual as if we were buying each other a pack of cigarettes...
...zanne dabbed, he did not dot (like Seurat) or dash (like Monet). The vibrations of light, which so fascinated his impressionist friends, left him cool. "I know nothing except color," he explained, and added: "Light is but one tone of a place; shadow is another." Mainly through color, Cézanne recreated the deep sunny space of L'Estaque, a canvas which combines the repose of a pyramid with the lightness of air. Through color he made Madame Cézanne look fixed and solid as a newel post (she was a patient poser but a flighty creature, seldom...