Word: cools
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cool Hope. Britain was out to prove her point at this first UNO meeting by broadening the discussion. A struggle over which areas of the world are to go under the new trusteeships seemed certain. Into the Assembly's arena, too, would probably go the problem of Palestine and the whole question of European refugees...
Press dispatches and headlines would undoubtedly relate every ripple in world politics at this meeting. But as the Assembly convened, the fact was that London's mood was refreshingly cool. There was a feeling that perhaps not a great deal would be done, but that something could certainly be done. In the world of 1946, "something" would be a good deal...
...Germany and to declare: 'I am the good, the noble, the just Germany in the white robe; I leave it to you to exterminate the wicked one.' Not a word in all that I have just said about Germany, or tried to indicate, came out of alien, cool, objective knowledge; it is all within me, I have been through...
...King Carol of Rumania and his Madame Lupescu paraded down the mosaic sidewalks that curl along the slim half-moon of Copacabana beach. Tens of thousands of cariocas, impelled by a summer heat wave, dashed into the Atlantic's cool, green breakers. At Argentina's Mar del Plata, the Unzues and the Martinez de Hozes and all the other upper-crusters sunned themselves at private beach clubs, far from the madding crowd, and seldom swam (the water was too cold...
...keep body & soul together night & day: "We bled to death. We were eating off each other's wrists. We had one paper hat right on the hook but when we mentioned money he jumped back in the icebox." Another potential sponsor died during negotiations: "He went cool on us. They had to throw dirt...