Word: coolness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Mulloy was wrong. In a semifinal match this week, he lost to the cool retrieving of Herbie Flam in a long, five-set match. Art Larsen subdued Dick Savitt to become the other finalist. One of the two would climb to the top of the totem pole this week, but the pole seemed stumpier than usual...
...semifinals this week, the championship had narrowed down to two veterans and two relative newcomers. The veterans stayed in command. Playing in the same cool & collected fashion that has won her the U.S. title two years in a row, Margaret Osborne du Pont, 32, beat pretty, crop-haired Nancy Chaffee, 21, of Ventura, Calif. Florida's Doris Hart, 25, put out California's Beverly Baker...
...third biggest loan in the World Bank's history, and the fastest ever negotiated; instead of the usual months of negotiations, it had taken just 20 days for Australia to borrow a cool $100 million.* The loan was formalized last week in Washington's whitestone World Bank building, when tall, lean World Bank President Eugene R. Black and short, stocky Australian Ambassador Norman J. O. Makin briskly signed their names to a stack of papers (30 signatures apiece...
...total of 2,652 Summer School students passed the warm months in Cambridge, studying for hour exams and rushing in Lament to keep cool. While footloose Harvard vacationers spent the summer girdling the globe, the large crop of summer scholars (about half of whom were from Harvard and Radcliffe) kept Cambridge busy during the School's eight-week sessions...
...heart becomes as worn-out as his teeth. Too tired to follow the herd any longer, he grazes alone, but finds gathering his daily ration of 600 pounds of fodder a mammoth task. Thin and feverish, he moves down to water during the dry months and stands around keeping cool...