Word: cools
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Surprise Choice. Tall, stern Lord Linlithgow, whose record term (seven and a half years) as Viceroy expires in October, was fishing near Simla in the cool fragrance of the Himalayan hills when Wavell's appointment was announced. Down in the plains, where the hot summer wind, the loo, pushed the mercury toward an unendurable 120°, Indian commentators wrote bitterly that Linlithgow had ruled through a period of turmoil unsurpassed since the mutiny of 1857. They had expected as his successor a hardheaded, reactionary politician, while hoping, faintly, for a statesman with "a fresh approach to the Indian problem...
Tall, curly-haired Jane Haughton has been an airport-control operator barely a month. But in that time she and 19 other WAVES, in towers at half a dozen naval fields, have proved themselves, in. a job once reserved exclusively for men, on the grounds that it calls for cool, quick thinking in the pinches, a level head at all times...
Beyond the Outpost. As has been true on every other Pacific front, the Japs were cool fighters. But with Attu firmly in the U.S. grasp, Kiska gravely threatened and the Jap naval base at Paramoshiri only 750 miles beyond the westernmost U.S. outpost, signs of nervousness began to appear in Tokyo. Blustered the Jap, in an official broadcast: "If in the future Russia ever puts her Siberian bases at the disposal of the U.S., the Japanese Army will resort to a blitzkrieg that will deal upon her the heaviest blows Russia has ever known...
...Concert this Sunday night. It is Cruft Officers' Night; your friends will be there to spend a fine evening listening to the delightful music of Arthur Fiedler and the Boston Symphony Orchestra. It's refreshing change from Math to Music; from formulas to fantasy. Lot's sip a cool during, pass a pleasant word, and share the sweet strains together on Sunday night...
...only European future that made sense. In 1929, the high noon of France's hegemony on the continent, the great Aristide Briand sent a memorandum to all European governments proposing steps toward a European federation. From 26 nations came approval - in principle. Though Britain was officially cool, Winston Churchill, then a political outcast, wrote: "Why should Europe fear unity? As well might a man fear his own body." Edouard Herriot, Briand's bulldog, wrote a book called The United States of Europe (1930). But before the movement could get anywhere, Depression and Hitler intervened...