Word: cools
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cool of the Evening. In South Carolina, when the sun sets and the day's work is done (but the strain of the day still lingers in mind and muscle), when the restless dust starts to settle back on the cotton fields, men gather on verandahs and wharves to sit and talk while they watch the bullbats nervously darting and swooping around the chimneys. Bourbon with water from the branch is in order-and low-voiced, scattered talk of high politics. Such a talk Jimmy Byrnes calls a "bullbat session." He loves them. In 1946 the bullbat session-bourbon...
...Cole Trio, which nine years ago was playing California cocktail bars for $25 a week apiece. Now, largely because of the casual "singing of Nat (King) Cole, son of a Negro Baptist minister, the trio earns $5,000 a week, for such songs as Straighten Up and Fly Right ("Cool down, papa, don't you blow your top") and Get Your Kicks on Route...
...market, almost knocked out by Wachholtz' first whirlwind attack, was making a nice comeback. That heartened businessmen. Cool, self-confident Minister Wachholtz, busy with plans for cutting Government spending and starting a state bank, knew that the real job lay ahead: to diversify the economy and end the old reliance on world markets for copper and nitrates. Whatever the outcome, Chile's new government had made its choice: it would stand or fall according to the success or failure of Wachholtz' efforts...
Prizes to Find. Other prizes lie in New Guinea, where stone-age" fuzzy-wuzzies, ignorant of the outside world, live in high, cool "white man's country...
...York's press, perhaps mirroring the sentiments of the majority of readers, had remained cool to the city's guests. Suburban Westchester residents had squawked indignantly when the U.S. began looking around the county for permanent quarters. Long Island groups protested, less notably, at the rate at which U.N. employes took over apartments and houses in a housing crisis. This week, after a fortnight's site-hunting jaunt, U.N.'s delegates sat down to select a new home...