Word: cools
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...summer smells of popcorn and gasoline swept across Manhattan's hectic heartland-Times Square. Behind the cool glass panes of the Pepsi-Cola United Nations Center, an underpublicized celebrity was speaking on international friendship. It was Lidiya Gromyko, the diplomat's wife, appearing on the 21st of a series of ABC broadcasts on United Nations First Ladies. The interviewer: Alma Kitchell, a lesser Mary Margaret McBride. The broadcast was conceived in the widespread, well-meaning conviction (shared by the more thoughtful teenagers, the more optimistic cocktail partygoers and UNESCO) that a thorough exchange of information is the shortest...
Wriggles in the Night. Other editors were trying their best to bring comfort. In an Indian restaurant in Soho, the London correspondent of the Manchester Guardian decided that the time was ripe for - testing the age-old theory that curry is cooling. "It brought tears to the eyes," he reported after consuming a heaping plateful of the hottest variety, "and certainly the external world seemed cool for a time compared to the inferno raging within...
...million gallons a day-30 million gallons more than last year's consumption for the same period. Taps gurgled and ran dry in thousands of London homes, and once again Londoners were queuing up on the streets, this time with jugs and cans, to wait for a cooling ration from city water carts and hydrants. In many a London kitchen, where the milk is kept cool and sweet by standing in a bucket of wafer, housewives philosophically turned their curdling ration to pot cheese...
...family in 35 owns one) chose this crucial moment to spring a leak. To save their Pekingese bitch, Anna, from asphyxiation, the Harwoods hung her out of the window in a string bag. Whether Anna survived the treatment without hysterics was not reported, but as the weekend approached with cooling thunderstorms, the ever-helpful Evening Standard had a final word of advice for other dog lovers. "Dog hysteria," pronounced the Standard, "has its root in digestive troubles, but dogs are more prone to attack in hot weather. Place your dog in a cool, dark place until he is more normal...
...that the health-governing material in air is a mysterious gas he calls "aran." Aran's concentration in the air, Curry computed, varies with the time of day (it is low at night and high in midafternoon, and with the weather (low in warm south winds, high in cool north winds). He is pretty certain that varying the concentration of aran can increase or decrease inflammation, start bleeding, and produce all sorts of spasms...