Word: cools
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Sumner Welles thrust a cool, straight blade at Argentina and Chile last fortnight for tolerating Axis spies (TIME, Oct. 19), he must have expected resentful parrying by the Governments of those countries...
...General Vandegrift, who can be seen in the evenings stretched out meditatively in a canvas deck chair in front of his heavily fly-sprayed cabin, has been cool, softspoken, crafty, hard and wonderfully cheerful. The Air Commander . . . wears his cigar and chooses his tactics with a jaunty air. The colonels who command Marine regiments and battalions lie in coral-crusted mud with their men, dodge the soprano-chattering Jap 25-caliber guns. . . . A private, a wire-stringer, carried a heavy steel spool of telephone wire eight miles up & down 60° slopes. . . . There are great squads of anonymous heroes. . . . Perhaps...
Sitting in a cool grove of rubber trees, the Australians ravenously ate meat loaf with mashed potatoes, peach shortcake, bread and tea. Only then, as the tropic dusk came swiftly, did one Australian speak. "Give me a few days," he said, "and I'll be ready for another go at them...
...patience of tall, cool Sumner Welles suddenly ran out. For months the State Department had politely nudged the governments of Argentina and Chile, reminding them of hemispheric unity. But Argentina, under isolationist President Ramón S. Castillo, stayed stubbornly unregenerate. And Chile, under veteran politico President Juan Antonio Rios, kept coy. They, alone of all the Americas, refused to break relations with the Axis...
...Louis Cardinals of 1942. In their book, nothing is too difficult. Their outfielders make octopus catches, pick off base runners with the cool precision of anti-aircraft guns. Their runners can beat out any bunt, are shamefaced if they can't make third from first on an outfield single. Last week these scooping, swooping musketmen upset Yankee morale. In the first game of the Series, with Old Reliable Red Ruffing only four putouts away from a no-hitter, they staged a rally that scored four runs, sent Ruff to the showers and nearly stole the ball game...