Word: cools
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...work of 45-year-old Pierre Tal-Coat (rhymes with kum-quat), who thinks he has found the way. Unlike many of his contemporaries, who were trying to attract attention by loud colors, shocking subjects and explosive forms, he had retreated from noisy, "spaceless" Paris to the cool mountain forests of Provence, and to misty abstractions of rocks, trees and streams...
Traditional buckskins are adequate, but they are hot, and rubber soles do not make for comfortable long-distance hiking. Loafers and sneakers are cool, but rough on feet. Old leather shoes are best...
...intervening weeks he will need one decent suit (perhaps), such light wear as khaki wash pasts and this cool jackets...
...means," snapped Connally, "a favorable background, warm in the winter and cool in the summer...
Presidential Press Secretary Charles Ross, a past president of the Gridiron Club and now an associate member, rightly guessed that other Gridironers would not take the second Truman refusal lightly. To cool off the hot tempers in advance, Ross put together a Gridiron-style skit and song, entitled "When We Ride, We Always Ride with Harry." Then Ross and the three other Gridironers aboard the presidential train made a record of the skit. On the third stanza of the song ("When I laugh, I always laugh with Harry . . ."), Harry Truman himself added his bathtub baritone. He also sent his greetings...