Word: cools
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...battle in reverse. Yet for all the commotion and concussion, the young Vietnamese Nationalists were calm. Just as one terrorist shell exploded a few feet from headquarters, pitting the walls with its fragments, one Nationalist turned on the overhead fan to keep me-a visiting foreigner-cool in the seasonable summer heat...
...Panama. Then he followed the most authoritative route over the isthmus' north-coast range, down a remote river and across the densely jungled central plain. At length he faced three peaks, two about 8,000 ft. high and one only 2,200. With a professional soldier's cool surmise, McDonald decided that Balboa would have sensibly climbed the smaller hill for reconnaissance. McDonald and party scrambled up it and saw the silvery sea. He feels sure that he found the lost peak in Darien...
...played like pros from the first game. Even as they finally lost one last week, they were so hot that the Giants who beat them (5-4) needed a couple of Willie Mays's classiest catches and a couple of Umpire Babe Pinelli's doubtful decisions to cool them...
...soft air turned the land green, American women were suddenly aware of a truth that bursts upon them every spring: Summer was at hand, and they did not have a thing to wear. Therefore, they were out in force in stores last week in search of the cool-and new-clothes to make the hot weather bearable. Tall girls looked for dresses that would make them seem shorter; short girls wanted to look taller. The plump wanted eye-foolers that would seem to take off inches, the thin all wanted to look round, firm and fully packed. The young wanted...
...mambo troupe (actually Katherine Dunham's) suggests that Silvana go along with them. Says Shelley: "This girl has a very important talent"-for the dance, she means, but she is mistaken. Silvana mambos like a self-conscious tourist. Her real talent is her uncanny beauty, all cool glow and rich simplicity, and a sensational figure. Then, too, it takes no little skill to read with a straight face such lines as those with which this picture concludes: "There was left to me only what I had learned through work, heartache, and a rich but tragic love-that...