Word: coolness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...driving, see. cool like down the freeway. A young kid in a twin pipe job come up on me fast on the right. He was a goner. He cockeyed near cooled me, man. So I said, 'Jimmy, let's write a song about this cool cat.' I don't even know the name of the guy. But I got even. Man, I got even...
...singing the lyrics aloud in an adenoidal tenor. "All I do," he says, "is just take it easy. I sit in my own backyard, and I got dark glasses on. Then I start going 'ump, ump, ump,' like I get the rhythm first, see? I take it cool, and there's nobody irritating me in my own backyard...
...foot's on the throttle and it's made of lead But I'm a fast-riding Daddy with a real cool head...
...Call. "The pterodactyl was a flyin' fool, a breeze-flappin' Daddy of the o-o-ld school." He expects to make around $65,000 this year, but he has an anchor to windward. "The boss told me I can always get my job back with that cool trucking company," he says. "Now wasn't that something for a real cool...
...same spirit. I have a suspicion, displays itself, at least in the externals, in the religious sphere, which to an Englishman seems rather odd at times. On the lighter side, for example. I recall reading an advertisement in a newspaper which began. 'Is any church so air-conditioned cool as . . . ?' and members of the congregation were invited to share the delights of an iced fruit drink after the service. The [U.S.] minister seems to feel he is in a competitive world where other loyalties attract, and that he must 'sell' religion ... I have been very impressed...