Word: coolness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Before the cruiser's guns could cool, a call came in from the nearby 1st Marine Division. The Reds were directing mortar fire on the leathernecks from bunkers protected by 15 feet of earth and logs-too thick for the marines' artillery to penetrate. The Los Angeles had the answer: armor-piercing shells that plow through the bunkers, explode inside. From the loudspeaker above Lieut. Marksheffel's head came the metallic voice of the Marine spotter ashore: "Come left 200 yards . . ." Three more rounds. Again the metallic voice: "Well done. Direct hit on mortar position...
Principal crops: rice (more of which has to be imported to eke out the local supply), abaca (the famous Manila hemp), copra, sugar, corn, tobacco. The seasons: hot (March through June), rainy (July through October), cool (November through February). In the hot season, the government itself picks up & leaves Manila, settles down in the mountain city of Baguio (pop. 29,262), which is the official summer capital...
...Word Unspoken. The Western plan was presented to the 60 nations of the U.N. with flourishes - in a formal American-British-French resolution, in a speech by President Truman from Wash ington, and finally in a cool, point-by-point Assembly address by U.S. Secretary of State Acheson...
...juicy platter of chicken in his lap. While demonstrating the range of his mind, he also files a minority report on the direction in which he thinks civilization is moving. Skeptical, urbane, relativistic, Two Cheers for Democracy is the report of a man who prefers to stand in the cool draft of a perpetually open mind. In an age of anxiety, he implies, more & more men are nibbling at the tempting cheese of "absolutes" and "certainties." To Forster, the only certainty is that too much certainty leads to intolerance, and intolerance leads man into bloody traps...
...weakness stole through the thighs of Adam, unmanning him so that, to his own astonishment, he sank down into the cool grass and leaned his back against a boulder of grey granite . . . Now the first patient in the world was fully under the initial anesthesia, ready for the original surgery." When he came to, there stood Eve, "on small, bare feet in the cool grass...