Word: cools
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...particularly cool, levelheaded man with an immense store of common sense, who knows his business and keeps his head when things go wrong...
...early days of the Republic, a Cabinet member reported in person to Congress. Cordell Hull, appearing in the House before the two great bodies, facing kleig lights, the Diplomatic Corps, Cabinet members and packed galleries, stood at the zenith of his career. But the 72-year-old Tennessee mountaineer, cool and reserved as ever, made no play for the greatest gallery of his life. In his own way, cautious but sure, steady and tenacious, he hammered away again at the cardinal tenets of his diplomatic philosophy. Thus he made no stirring show, and not much news except in the yard...
Printing TIME on the Persian Gulf for the American soldiers in Iran is farthest East in more ways than one. The only press in the place is an ancient, hand-fed flatbed that had to be fanned for two hours to cool it off after an hour's run. And when you read this report on how our first issue got printed , I think you will understand why nobody else has ever before tried to bring out a newsmagazine in the land of the houri...
This attitude has roots in the strange, cool personality of Donald Douglas-and illustrates exactly the present plight of the airplane industry, which is crowding the skies of the world with warplanes, and dreads the day when it must convert to making a dribble of peace planes...
There was the small man with the big remains that Bragg's were colorful. Their muscles, the close combat instructor and fiendish ("scrub barracks tonight") platoon sergeant. He had the "cadre complex" and had it bad, and was continually nasty in a high-pitched way. Then came the first cool day, when he winsomely confided that he was an ex-English teacher, that his greatest ambition was to come to Harvard after the war as a graduate student, "and just read for a year...