Word: cools
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...crowd would not sing. It watched first one entrance, then another, as photographers scurried around. Then, suddenly, as if he had been lifted up by invisible strings, Tom Dewey appeared on the platform, from the cool, little room below the speakers' stand. He looked cool and calm, obviously happy. He waved, brought his wife forward to share the ovation, waved again, shook hands with John Bricker. Calmly, efficiently, he took quick stock of the microphones, the manuscript-holder, the clock. He did not encourage any demonstration, but the crowd roared...
...himself said: "I must publicly disapprove. . . ." The Liberal Party's Premier Adélard Godbout, from whose Cabinet Bouchard had gone to the Senate, was sorely embarrassed. In Ottawa, a French Canadian member of Mackenzie King's Liberal Government tried to minimize the whole affair. Said able, cool Louis Stephen St. Laurent, Minister of Justice: ". . . a group of from one-tenth to one-half of one percent of the population [of Quebec] should not be taken too seriously. . . . Senator Bouchard is one of those who assert that a spade should be called a spade but sometimes...
...battle for Cherbourg opened on a clear, cool, summery day. U.S. troops had chased the beaten Nazi divisions up the peninsula, driven wedges to the sea on both sides of the seaport. There was no escape except by sea-and the Allies controlled...
Root turned the ship over to Anderson and sat beside me. He spoke in a quiet, cool tone. "Guess old 293 isn't a virgin any more," he said...
...From his cool and shabby room behind the mellowed walls of Rome's Convent of the Little Company of Mary, the 80-year-old philosopher spoke sparingly last week of things beyond the noise of war. George Santayana's fame as a poet, philosopher, novelist (The Last Puritan) made the newsmen listen to him respectfully. The old philosopher's aloof attitude was bound to irritate men who were very near to war. But his words were worth listening...