Word: cools
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...these are the last hours of Cairo they are certainly glorious hours. The days are hot, but not sizzling hot, and the nights are cool, brightened by a gigantic bomber's moon, which makes the Pyramids visible miles away...
Pomp, Not Panic. Although Hitler is supposed to have boasted that the Germans will be in Alexandria by July 8 and in Cairo by the 13th, there are practically no signs of evacuation or panic. The American Embassy and Military Mission Headquarters function with the same cool efficiency which characterized them when the enemy was well on the other side of Tobruk...
...they wanted. In the California desert at Indio (very hot in the shade and no shade) he saw our new desert warfare battalions being whipped into shape, heard General Patton applying the lessons our side has learned in Libya. And he got the opposite picture (and also some welcome cool weather) high up among the snowy peaks near Fort Lewis in Washington, where the U.S. Army is training our mountain fighters...
...Senator who asked whether rumors of his resignation were true he cracked, "Why not? You fellows don't seem to give a damn about making price-freezing work. Why should I?" To reporters he said he might go off to Havana for a cooling-off trip since "I can't seem to get to go any place else." The last time he went South to cool off (TIME, April 21, 1941) was just before Franklin Roosevelt gave him the OPACS and a green light on expansion of war plants...
...Neither did he gallop in wild anapest down the road to Lexington. The lanterns that were hung in Christ's Church steeple ("one if by land, two if by sea") were not hung for Paul Revere. He had helped put them there. His ride was a cool, businesslike night's work, but at first Revere was rattled. He had forgotten to bring his spurs and a cloth to muffle his oarlocks. A girl friend of one of the oarsmen gave them her petticoat ("still warm") for the oars. Revere used to tell his children...