Word: cools
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...thorax. They found that it might be as much as 11° above the temperature of the surroundings. Since all warm objects radiate in the infrared, the conclusion was that a hot-blooded female moth "must literally 'shine' against a background of cool forest objects...
...total of 2,652 Summer School students passed the warm months in Cambridge, studying for hour exams and rushing in Lament to keep cool. While footloose Harvard vacationers spent the summer girdling the globe, the large crop of summer scholars (about half of whom were from Harvard and Radcliffe) kept Cambridge busy during the School's eight-week sessions...
...their positions well, dug in deep, laced their machine guns into tight fire-patterns, and methodically proceeded to lay some of the best minefields and barbed wire yet seen in Korea. Once dug in, the British began sending out patrols to make contact with the enemy. The patrols were cool, businesslike and aggressive as a pack of foxhounds...
Part of the Britons' cool thoroughness was explained by their months of field training at Hong Kong, part by their commander, big, affable Brigadier Basil Aubrey Coad, who moved constantly through his positions on the Naktong with the cool aplomb of a duke at a garden party. During the first day's action, one British company was cut off. No one got excited. Coad calmly ordered the company supplied by tanks and an airdrop, and a U.S. helicopter went into the cut-off company and brought out its first wounded. The British thought this was a particularly admirable...
Sonny Stiff and Bud Powell, Stan Getz, Lee Konitz and Lennie Tristano (New Jazz LP). These three 10-in. LP records contain the last beads on the lunatic fringe of "cool" jazz. At times the music of these small combos is as weird as a hashish dream or as annoying as fingernails on a blackboard, but they occasionally manage (when the piano rides above the saxophones) some pleasant, if disorganized, sounds...