Word: cools
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Willkie left Cairo in a big, drab-painted B-24 bomber, transferred somewhere in Palestine to a Douglas DC-3, flew on to Ankara. There he talked with Turkey's jovial, troubled Premier Sükrü Saracoglu and cool Foreign Minister Numan Menemencioglu. The visitor left Turkey in full agreement with New York Times Correspondent Ray Brock's cable (approved by the Turkish Foreign Office): "Turkey is firmly anchored alongside the United Nations for the war's duration...
Three years ago, Benny Goodman gave his dark-haired, blue-eyed trumpeter a friendly shove toward bandleadership. A semi-failure at first, Bandleader James began tasting success only when he laid away his ambitions as a "hot" man, and developed a simple sweet style that features the clear, cool James trumpet against a mass of soft strings (he added five strings to his band to give it the un-swing-like total of eight). Imperturbably, James alternated blues and boogie-woogie with Viennese waltzes and technical specialties out of his own trumpet. But it was his revival of Al Jolson...
Oldtime GOPoliticos did not quite know what to make of this new-and nicer-political face as Convention Keynoter Boothe stood before the microphone, slim and cool in a black silk dress, occasionally gesturing gently with a pair of blue-rimmed harlequin spectacles. (Murmured one: "She can even wear glasses!") As keynoter of the Connecticut convention, she clearly stated her concern with the terrible necessity of making democracy work in the middle of the war-to-end-civilization, and the editors who saw that she had ably stated the general concerns of many citizens reprinted here & there her text...
...then to die coldly ("The ideal soldier thinks only when ordered to do so"). His role was not to lead them into battle, or to die with them, but to see that they had an unfailing supply of battle leaders and battle tools; and this he did with cool and consummate mastery...
...clichés, though he apparently was trying his old technique of extravagantly praising his international friends: "It is very fortunate for Russia to have this great, rugged war chief . . . massive and strong personality . . . inexhaustible courage . . , direct and even blunt in speech . . . saving sense of humor . . . deep, cool wisdom and complete absence of illusion...