Word: cools
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Houses are under the jurisdiction of their individual masters, the Dean's Office is impotent and can only act as mediator between the committee and the masters, whose fear of rowdiness coupled with a reluctance to stage more than two big dances each term has made them cool towards the advances of the students...
...forging seven Vermeers and two Pieter de Hooches; one phony Vermeer he had patriotically palmed off on Göring (TIME, Sept. 10, 1945). To prove it, he painted still another "Vermeer," Jesus in the Temple (see cut), in his cell. It looked unlike Vermeer's cool, clean interiors, but did remind Dutch art experts of one of the master's few religious paintings: Christ with Mary and Martha...
...Chile. Looking northward, the first of the five Andean republics is Chile, where spring had come hesitantly, like a girl from the sea, wet and cool. It was bad news for vineyardists that the wine crop was badly damaged by late frosts. It was bad news for Chilenos in general. Next year the common grades of wine might have to go above 18? a gallon (the same price as gasoline) and that would go hard with a nation which bows not even to the U.S. in its liking for alcohol...
Robert Fox Bacher (rhymes with rocker), 41, head of nuclear research at Cornell University, one of the scientists who assembled the first atomic bomb. Cool, deliberate, diplomatic, Bacher is regarded by his colleagues as one of the country's half-dozen leading nuclear physicists...
Zizi, a middle-aged little lady with brown, shoulder-length hair, was sorry to be caught, but said she was not a bit sorry to stop copying Utrillo. The 63-year-old modern's cool, empty streets thrilled her not at all, said Zizi. It would be hard to forge the art of her favorites, Da Vinci and Velasquez, she said, "but my Utrillos are better painted than the master...