Word: coolness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hours one afternoon last week, Robert A. Taft, cool, confident and precise as a mathematics teacher, laid before Congress the cause of those who want to systematize and retrench the U.S.'s vacillating world policy. He came before the Senate as a man who had long spoken as "Mr. Republican" on domestic policy, but it was not in that role that he spoke on foreign policy. In foreign affairs no one could speak for more than a segment of either sorely divided party...
...Britain and France to the effect that the West ought to stand ready to delay or scrap West Germany's defense in exchange for Russian concessions. The fact remained that no conceivable concessions by Moscow could be worth a strong Germany in the Western camp. Washington remained cool to the Russian offer. But by merely crooking its diplomatic little finger, Moscow had managed to show up (and increase) the cracks in the Western front...
...Cool Head. In Forest, Ont., Harry Vinten finally got out of bed to leave his burning house, explained to firemen why he had relaxed as they smashed windows and doors to get to him: "You guys seemed to be doing all right...
...President that we must withdraw from Korea-to hell with our brave kids . . . and to invite butchers of our wounded boys to seats at the U.N. . . . America will go it alone!" The British consul-general in Los Angeles wrote a letter in reply to suggest politely that Birdwell keep cool and to ask, "Can he cite a single instance in which Britain pulled out and left her allies to bear the brunt of battle...
...Nonentity. When Harry Truman became President, Ross wrote for the P-D a cool, detached judgment of his old friend: "He has been called an average American, but he is better than average. He is not a nonentity and no Harding. He may not have the makings of a great President, but he has the makings of a good President." One of the first things President Truman did was to persuade Ross to give up his $35,000-a-year job with the P-D and become press secretary at $10,000 (later raised...