Word: cools
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Other trainloads of soldiers went through the same sort of experience-and they all griped. It did not cool them off to see civilians whizzing by in air-cooled Pullmans, or to hear a rumor that German prisoners of war were also riding in Pullmans. P.O.W.s ride in Pullmans only when they are certified as ill; Italian Service Units sometimes get Pullman service...
Author Quennell, who graphically explored the Age of Reason in Caroline of England, has returned to it in The Profane Virtues, a study of one man (Gibbon) who upheld the Age's ideals, and of three men (Boswell, Sterne, Wilkes) who more or less belied them. In his cool, graceful prose Quennell has drawn their portraits, unrolled and smoothed out their time-wrinkled careers, talked very little of their masterpieces and, since their paths crossed or just missed crossing at many points, painted a whole animated, integrated 18th Century world. For in one respect these men were alike...
Charlie took his wife for a walk to cool off. Imogene, fondling an automatic pistol which her husband had given her, fired a few practice shots into her fireplace...
Half Way. At the halfway mark the supply line peters off and there comes a gap between the new army and the old. You drop from the cool Kweichow plateau into the.heat of the Kwangsi plains. From there you bump by jeep over the great swath of devastation that American construction engineers left behind when they wrecked the country in the retreat of 1944. The bridges are out, and useless railways parallel the highway in twisted shreds of destruction...
...long, cool, wet spring favored aphid reproduction and killed off many of its natural enemies (notably ladybugs). The aphid, or plant louse, a squashy insect usually about the size of a pinhead, is not rated as a big-league pest in the U.S. But its Ohio holiday was only a sample of what the aphid might do if it were let alone. If all her offspring lived, a single female could girdle the earth with her progeny in a single season...