Word: cools
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...complicated deceptive tactics of the coastal campaign he needed more good soldiers than George Kenney and his airmen, and he had them. Most important of all was Dick Sutherland, a lean, bronzed, cool precisionist and a laboratory technician in the science of war. Sutherland knew how to translate MacArthur's sweeping plans into detailed operations schedules. For some of the moves in the campaign they made a six-inch-thick volume. In many an advance they refuted Moltke's dictum that no battle can be fought according to plan after the first few minutes. MacArthur-Sutherland battles were...
Slowly the U.S. got to know Tom Dewey better. The U.S. as a whole learned that he was cool, precise, tough-minded, with a passion for neatness (he usually fastens both buttons of his single-breasted suits), a meticulous regimen (he rarely eats a heavy meal), an experienced facility in avoiding traps set by hostile newsmen, a firm determination to say exactly what he wanted to say when he wanted...
...Finland was still trying to throw out the once-welcome German guest. Russia joined in at the Arctic Ocean to speed the parting. With Petsamo's nickel mines threatened by the Russian drive and a Lapland winter making up, the German determination to stick around was beginning to cool. Helsinki was still hopeful that it would be able to demobilize its soldiers by Dec. 5-the armistice deadline...
...Veterans. They added Ulithi, Min danao, Morotai, Halmahera and Manila to their battles and scores of enemy planes to their tally. They fought now with confidence born of experience, shepherded the bombers with cool, cocky precision...
After a July order banning discrimination between white and Negro troops on all its posts, the Army hoped that things would cool off. But by last week one phase of the problem of how to treat Negro soldiers was hot and growing hotter...