Word: coolness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Vital Statistics. Tape or talk, Evashevski had finally found the formula for success. The Gophers fumbled on the fourth play from scrimmage and the fired-up lowans wasted not a moment. Quarterback Ken Ploen called his shots with cool aplomb, flicked a couple of precise, pinpoint passes, and, eight plays later, the Hawkeyes scored...
Having expressed its shock, the West would now do well to let its inflamed sensibilities cool off quietly. For a truly neutral India can be of much use to the world by showing the way to rational and peaceful easing of tensions, and incessant complaints about the errors cannot but force Nehru into a defensive position...
Eisenhower kept a close watch and a cool head. In stern and unequivocal language he warned Russia's Bulganin that any intervention by Russian troops in the Middle East war was "unthinkable"'; he added afterwards that any Russian move against Austria would be considered by the U.S. as "a grave threat to peace." Meanwhile he worked patiently to repair the physical and moral basis of the Western alliance, so as to confront the probing Russians with a united Western front. In a decisive speech on the crisis from the White House (see page 29), Eisenhower proclaimed...
...opening night, the applause for Callas' first entrance was cool, while crowds of standees, giving every appearance of an organized claque, cheered other members of the cast to the rafters. At the end of the first intermission, Soprano Zinka Milanov, one of Callas' rivals, dramatically sailed down the aisle to her seat and drew an ovation. But long before the final eleven curtain calls that held the audience well past midnight, long before Callas achieved a solo bow (though solo curtain calls are outlawed under General Manager Rudolf Bing), the critical crowd had capitulated. The customary cliches about...
...opposed Britain's entry into World War I. Under Wadsworth the paper, a nonprofit-making trust, switched its support from Labor to Tories as it deemed fit, fought British policy on Cyprus and Suez, roasted the U.S. for McCarthyism. It is a strong supporter of Adlai Stevenson, is cool toward the Eisenhower Administration and often angrily critical...