Word: cools
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Louis banker and now director of OWMR, wanted to settle the strike with a little inflation. Price Boss Chester Bowles, no crony, wanted a line to hold. While they argued, the striking Steelworkers' Phil Murray and the struck Steel Corporation's Ben Fairless could do nothing but cool their heels. More than anyone else, they wanted to come to terms, but that was impossible until Mr. Truman's policy was stabilized...
...Davis took Dewey into the Labor Department-he has been bouncing back & forth between Washington, Detroit, Pittsburgh, Cleveland, spreading balm. A onetime railroad telegrapher, 59-year-old Jim Dewey has become the government's ace mediator. His methods are simple: get 'em together, keep 'em cool, let 'em talk...
...models stalked back & forth Though many of the 274 designs still stressed utility, a distinct shift to the sophistication of New York and Paris was perceptible. One fetching outfit might have come straight off the floor of a Paris salon-a form-fitting dinner gown in cool grey with an austere neckline and sweeping sleeves caught in narrow cuffs...
...though thousands around him died during the Death March, in a stinking prison ship, in a Manchurian prison camp. Last week he took the witness chair in the big Manila ballroom where cool, suave Japanese General Masaharu Homma is on trial for his life. Talking quietly and precisely, as befitted his 28 years of service, Jimmy Baldassare became the first witness to link Homma to the infamous Death March...
...business was fed up with share-the-wealth decrees; some labor elements suspected Juan Perón's kept unions, well remembering how many workers the Strong Man had jailed. As for the election-timed 30% pay boost for labor (judged by some to have gained Peron a cool million votes), a taxi driver answered that one: "We earn more," he squawked, "but we spend more. It doesn't make sense...