Word: cools
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...John J. Pershing. The 80-year-old general, World War I friend of Marshal Pétain, declined because of his health, on the advice of U. S. Army physicians. Then the President chose another ex-officer as Ambassador to the old Marshal: one of his ablest public servants, cool, steady Admiral William Daniel Leahy, Governor of Puerto Rico. Paunchless, wind-seared Admiral Leahy, whose 65 years look like 50, accepted. His administration of Puerto Rico, which is fast becoming the U. S.'s No. 1 Caribbean naval & air base, had been effective. He was fully aware...
...quiet Junior was the iron man of the backfield this fall, playing 434 out of 480 minutes and excelling as a safety man and pass defender. His coach, Dick Harlow, describes him as "a cool little rooster and a man to rely on when the chips are down." He has a record of being Johnny-on-the-spot with a timely tackle or run in his football career at Cambridge...
...Manhattan show, Artist Martin had a slick portrait, some moody nudes, done in cool tones which nevertheless pulsed with life. In Tomorrow and Tomorrow, a big-thighed prostitute stood in her doorway, looking dejectedly out at the future. Temptation in Tonopah showed a tough-looking croupier, a composite of all the gambling-house characters in the capacious memory of Painter Martin, who is good at crap shooting. Out at Home, a baseball scene, one of the best in the show, was an adroit pattern of such vitality that it seemed to arrest action better than a 1,000th...
...housing demand (a subdivision of all building) FORUM foresaw a total of $2,500,000,000. This would be a cool half-billion above the depression high of 1939, but still well below the $4,000,000,000 annual demand of building's blooming quadrennium...
...prepared to give their ears a rest, prop up their feet, pay overdue attention to comic strips, football scores, fashion advertisements. But another campaign was on. A great shout was heard from leaders in both parties: "Unity!" Blared on the radio, blazoned in headlines were appeals, some frantic, some cool-praying that the U. S. should unite behind the President in order that the perils of the future be met in strength. "Good losers'' clubs were formed, meetings were held, petitions urging this-&-that were sent here-&-there...