Word: cools
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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West Pointer Darby was a soldier's soldier, undismayed by his command's suicidal missions, full of cool recklessness and the yeast of humor and enthusiasm. At Gela, with 18 blackfaced men, he caught 52 Italian officers holed up in a hotel, unhesitatingly went in with grenades and automatics, killed or captured all. Once, with one companion, he took on a tank with a .50-caliber machine gun and knocked...
...Dream. By night big Russian searchlights focused their rays down the battle-broken streets into the wide Alexander Platz, where Soviet shells clipped at the Gestapo headquarters and its hundreds of fanatics. Other beams poked into the last little fortress of scorched chestnut trees that had been the cool, fresh Tiergarten...
...Cowles noted that the English sparrow apparently mates only during the cool early morning hours when its body temperature drops below normal. The garter snake rarely breeds in summer...
Avoid the Noonday Sun. All this, thinks Dr. Cowles, may be a warning to man. He cites the fact that high fever sometimes causes temporary human sterility. A 1943 survey in Galveston, Tex. showed that the rate of conception of babies is higher in cool seasons than in warm. Other investigators have reported that the fertility of white men is greatly reduced in the tropics, and even natives conceive fewer children in the hot months. Dr. Cowles believes it entirely possible that a sustained cycle of hot climate on the earth might radically change or even wipe out the human...
Although he is too gaunt and spindle shacked a figure to impress as the perfect Hamlet, Eliot Duvey handles one of Shakespeare's most hazardous roles with confidence and finesse. His Hamlet is cool and calculating, and he convinces his audiences at the outset that his madness has method in it. Handing the difficult soliloquies like the veteran he is, Duvey is at his heat when alone on the stage, for he inclines to recite rather than act his lines...