Word: cools
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This affront to the boss sent a chill through the regular Democrats, who were already cool toward Kefauver. Truman pointedly observed that Kefauver is a good Senator and he likes to see good Senators in the Senate...
...appointment, though it got Canada its first native-born Governor General (see HEMISPHERE), cost Canada the most popular Governor General (the 37th) it had ever had. A trim soldier with a cool head, imperturbable nerves and mild manner, Alexander fought around the globe in the last war. He was "last man off the beach" at Dunkirk, went into Burma, the Middle East, North Africa and Italy, became Supreme Allied Commander in the Mediterranean. He did his work well and modestly and did not rush his memoirs into print afterwards. "If he had," a fellow general once said, "the personal pronoun...
When, out of the sun at noon, sometimes she stole down over the rocks and past the cliff-edge, down to the deep gully where the lemons hung in cool eternal shadow; and in the silence slipped off her wrapper to wash herself quickly at one of the deep, clear green basins, she would notice, in the bare green twilight, under the lemon leaves, that all her body was rosy, rosy and turning to gold ... And she would rub a little olive oil in her skin, and wander a moment in the dark underworld of the lemons ... laughing to herself...
...tone. Having no definite conception of how the music should be played, I can say very little about the interpretation. However, there did seem to be a lack of rapport between soloist and accompanist. The quiet passion which marked Krasner's playing was far removed from his wife's cool, almost mechanical pianism. I don't know which style is valid, but one of them was certainly out of place. In fairness to Mrs. Krasner it must be added that she is a first rate technician who effortlessly surmounted all the difficulties of her part (originally written for orchestra...
...after the Hitler-Stalin pact of 1939. His later experience in Gestapo prisons (he now lives in Paris) forms no part of this book, which is one of the most searching, intelligent studies of its kind to date, replete with scores of prison case histories and exemplary samples of cool-headed observation. The key question in it (which has haunted Weissberg for years) is the great why? Why, he asks again & again, did Stalin decide to destroy not only a horde of innocent, industrious peasants, but also the bulk of those on whom the Soviet state most depended-scientists, skilled...