Word: cools
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...marijuana regular. Usually, boys bought the smokes for her, but every now & then she conned her accountant father or telephone-operator mother out of $10, and bought a few dozen of her own. "I guess I lied all the time," she say's. "I played it cool at home; I was real quiet and cagey. I didn't act odd, and they never thought anything was up; they never got hip . . . [I] used to be proud of lying...
Moon Disks. Menzel is convinced that rarer types of mirages explain most flying saucers. Part of his conviction comes from something he saw while driving across New Mexico from Holloman Air Force Base to Alamogordo. It was a clear, cool night and a full moon had risen. Menzel noticed near the moon two bright objects which he took at first for the stars Castor and Pollux. His astronomer's knowledge told him that Castor and Pollux would not be visible at that season, so he lowered the car window to get a better look. The stars turned into fuzzy...
...under some conditions it may contain layers of warm air with cold air below them. These are called "inversions." They occur in all climates but are commonest in deserts, where both the ground and the air get very hot in daytime. As soon as the sun sets, the ground cools off, radiating its warmth into the sky. The air for a few feet up grows cool by contact with the cool earth, but the air a little higher stays warm...
Paris' respected Le Figaro termed these headlines "undisguised appeals to violence and disorder," demanded to know what police would do. But Paris police did nothing hasty. After one evening's demonstrations fizzled, they waited for things to cool off. Next morning L'Humanité fanned the flames by saying that the first riot was only the beginning, and called on the party to resist the "black wall of police sticks and carbines." It sounded the tocsin for a bigger demonstration. At the same time party headquarters sent out orders which made it appear that the demonstration would...
Public opinion against the Germans had begun to cool by this time, and the Bolsheviks became the new target, zealous patriots made accusations where, particularly in American colleges, with the University getting more its share of abuse. In those days students didn't stage riots--only an occasional "Revoit of the Proletariat...