Word: cools
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Their whispered propaganda makes much of the fact that 3,000 whites monopolize almost all the fertile land in the cool "White Highlands," leaving the blacks to grub for a living in barren, low-lying "reserves." The Mau-Mau teaches that the white man's medicine (e.g., anti-rinderpest inoculation) kills instead of curing, and that pregnant black women are aborted in white hospitals...
Such an agreement, Chaves hoped, would make the missions of some 30,000 Protestants acceptable in the predominantly Catholic country of 11 million, and cool off inflamed passions which have, during the past three years, brought death to 25 Protestants, hundreds of attacks on them, and the stoning, burning and dynamiting of their churches...
...last week collected an album of smiling royalty and rulers bending to the charms of the younger generation. On her first trip to Hemel Hempstead, northwest of London, where she laid the cornerstone for a new church, Queen Elizabeth II visited a new housing development where she captured the cool and undisguised admiration of one of her young subjects...
...summer all mapped out, and the map called for a long rest in Italy. A methodical man, Conductor Toscanini settled down to it three months ago : he spent most of his time in his beloved Milan, varying his routine with short visits to his villa on cool Lake Maggiore. Last week - summer plans drastically revised- Toscanini was back in Manhattan and at work...
...brother Takeo is something else, a young peasant back from the infantry whose earthiness envelops the count's liberal daughter before he's halfway through repairing her shattered greenhouse. These two are the new Japan, ready to start from scratch on a small farm, cool to both feudalism and Communism...