Word: cools
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Framework of Liaison. For 20 minutes the President and President-elect talked in privacy. There was little leakage of what went on, but aides pieced together enough hints to know that there was no bantering or joking about the campaign. The atmosphere was cool and Harry Truman was on edge. He talked gravely about, the need for cooperation in international affairs. Eisenhower agreed. Truman suggested a joint statement backing the principle of "no forcible repatriation" of prisoners in the Korean war. Eisenhower, who has adopted the firm policy of setting his own course, declined the joint statement but promised...
...cool stone halls of the castle of Kerak, the barons of the realm feasted at damask-laid tables, and toasted their ladies to the music of Oriental minstrels, A wedding was being celebrated, the marriage of the child princess of Jerusalem to a young knight. Outside, the siege engines of a Moslem army hurled huge stones against the walls, and periodically, the guests left the banquet hall to fight for their lives on Kerak's battlements. Only the tower in which the bridal pair was staying was not touched by the enemy fire, on orders of the chivalrous Moslem...
...Cool Heads. In Winchester, N.H., the candidates for town moderator included Forest Frost and Stanley Snow...
...High Treason, the J. Arthur Rank people examine the problem of Communist sabotage in England and conclude that as long as Scotland Yard employs cool, resourceful investigators there is no cause for alarm. It is a solid suspense job which mounts to a fine climax, then closes with a wonderful burst of thin-lipped realism...
Four Yard proctors contacted last night were cool towards the proposal. All agreed that additional hours on Sunday and weekday evenings would be desirable and that present crowded conditions in the Yard made study in the rooms difficult, but would not unequivocally call the added hours practical...