Word: cools
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...word, by destroying states essential to it, we destroyed the balance of power upon two continents . . . To the cool-headed and skillful manipulations of our calculating former ally, we innocently responded in exactly the way they wanted us to. I submit to you that in the destruction of Germany and Japan and in the headlong demobilization of our military establishment we upset the balance of power to such an extent that unless it can be restored promptly and effectively war with Russia is likely...
...pretty 21-year-old nurse named Ma Aye Mya (Miss Cool and Pleasant) told the court that the American doctor had forced his nurses to enter into sexual relations. Miss Cool and Pleasant apparently had only hearsay to support this charge. She said that Seagrave had avoided her after she rejected his advances. Defense witnesses for the ailing, 53-year-old physician firmly denied that Seagrave had ever molested his nurses. They further testified that he had been friendly towards Burma's government and army...
...hero of Fry's romantic comedy is a Thomas Mendip, played by John Gielgud. Mendip, a discharged soldier of 15th century England, is fed up with the stupidity of mankind and the dreariness of existence. he barges into the home of the Mayer of Cool Clary one April afternoon, and asks to be hanged. This unprecedented request is ignored by the mayor, whose credo throughout the entire play is "everything will be taken case of at the proper time...
...most part the other characters are earthbound creatures who cannot escapee society's rules. Outstanding in their roles are George Howe, Eliot Makcham, and Peter bull, as the Mayor, the Chaplain, and the Justice of Cool Clary. Esme Percy steals a brief scene when he appears as a drunken psalm-singing ragman. The other players are consistently fine. Much of the credit for the smooth and well-paced performance goes to Gielgud, who direced. Oliver Messel's scenery and costumes are wisely simple and unobtrusive...
...some of them into a rough order. He called it A Boy's Will. To his astonishment, the first publisher he tried accepted the book. In literary London, dominated by William Butler Yeats's misty grand manner and Ezra Pound's staccato snatches, Frost's cool voice was a refreshing contrast...