Word: cools
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...time since the carillonneur had left for the Royal Air Force, the 53 bells in Ottawa's Peace Tower, rising high over the plaza, came to life. Carillonneur Robert Donnell, on special furlough, played America, the Beautiful, then The Maple Leaf Forever. The silver notes shimmered in the cool midday air; the crowd cheered and waved its flags...
...Esbjerg on the Jutland coast, which is a forbidden zone and heavily mined against invasion, the Germans ordered curfew after 10. Organized workers struck, shopkeepers followed their lead, the banks closed and the baking ovens were allowed to cool. Allied flags appeared, waved, vanished and appeared again farther down the street. The Danes kept impassive faces, continued to stare through approaching Germans. After three days the baffled Kommandantur withdrew the curfew...
First symptoms of the disease are likely to be headaches, dizziness, lightheadedness, excessive blushing. Dr. Page advises people with these symptoms to see a doctor and keep cool. Blushing is "a good rather than a bad sign" because it indicates a relatively harmless type of hypertension. Extreme danger signals are wavy vision with blind spots and red or smoky urine, indicating hemorrhages in eyes or kidneys...
Have you ever felt, after a long summer drought, the sweet, cool, delicious droplets of the first rain? It's happened Wednesday as 457 little droplets of femininity landed in Wellesley College to start their freshman year. After that comes the heavy downpour, like nectar on the sweated brow. That happens today as Wellesley's upperclass nectarines register for the fall term...
Several of the girls who happened to the rowing on the Charles in the cool afternoon sent beaming smiles glowing over the water, perhaps accounting for the vigor with which all four platoons bang "Under A Bamboo Tree," "It's A Long Way to Tipperary," and "Around Her Neck She Wore A Yellow Ribbon...