Word: cools
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...their young son in the bathroom most of the time because they were afraid he would break some thing.) As busy as she was, Isaac William Gulp's little girl never lost her style, her poise, her figure. Guests admired the way she appeared on sweltering nights looking cool and handsome in dinner dresses with ruffles. She thought she looked best in yel low and chartreuse. She always had a weakness for absurd headgear and courageously indulged...
...about 18 months the Army, Navy and other war procurement agencies have quick-fingered a hot potato that never grew cool. The problem: How could U.S. war contracts be ended uniformly and quickly so that the industrial plant could speedily shift from one war product to another and reconvert without waste motion...
...began to torment her guests by emphasizing their stupidities. Niles did not know why he suddenly began a love affair with his cousin. Victoria did not know why she began a loveless affair with a doctor. Their neighbors, who watched the Grandolets growing richer, and Victoria becoming the cool, aloof mother of the Grandolet heir, did not know that the household was anything but successful. Victoria did not know, when the years of deception finally ended, why she looked at the columns of the mansion in the moonlight, turned her clearsighted ruthlessness against herself, began to cry with the back...
...Marine's book, chill-eyed, cool-blooded Colonel Merritt Edson is the Corps's ideal fighting man, full of military judgment, cold nerve and a complete devotion to his troops. He is the classic professional...
...prewar period itself." He suggested that industry must plan to produce for a postwar national income of around $100 billion a year, v. $65-70 billion heretofore.* And, he concluded, G.M. believes so firmly in this new, star-spangled statistic that it is ready to back it with a cool $500 million of new investment in reconversion and expansion. Since business confidence is so much a matter of follow-the-leader, G.M.'s $500 million bet on the postwar world, represented first-rate psychological warfare for full employment...