Word: cools
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...along with some 100,000 other retired couples who live in trailer coaches ... we have taken care of that matter in a highly satisfactory manner . . . We park our mobile homes at Yosemite, Yellowstone, the Adirondacks or some other cool retreat in summer, and go to Florida, Palm Springs or the Rio Grande valley in the winter...
...What would he think, Commonwealth Relations Minister Philip Noel-Baker asked the young chief, of abdicating and coming to live in England on a comfortable allowance? Seretse declined the offer. Then for three weeks, while Britain's politicians got through an election at home, he was left to cool his heels in London. Last week Seretse was called again to the Commonwealth Relations Office. Britain's government, he was told by plausible Patrick Gordon-Walker, the new Commonwealth Minister, had decided "that in the interest and welfare" of the Bamangwato, the young chief should be banished from Bechuanaland...
Troxell shows Matt his secret-a pressurized "pod" cockpit for jet planes which can be shot upward to land by parachute and save distressed pilots. While Matt is making himself a cool $25,000 piloting a jet from Nome over the Pole to Washington, Troxell dies when the "pod" fails in a premature test. Miss Parker accuses Matt of responsibility for this accident, warning that Troxell's ghost would come between them if they contemplated a life together. The nest day, Matt lands safely in the "pod" as his flaming plane crashes. Miss Parker rushes to him, and damn...
...employees in eleven U.S. cities, had done it by snagging choice new accounts (Lucky Strike, Schick Razors, Swan Soap, T.W.A.), and by hanging on to such B.B.D. & O. perennials as U.S. Steel Corp., Du Pont and General Electric. In six years, the agency had added a cool $50 million to its billings, more than doubled its business. B.B.D. &O. reports no gross revenue, but based on the usual 15% commission, its gross had risen to about $12 million a year...
Smith's winning jump shot climaxed a frantic last two minutes in which three Elis tossed in quick baskets to put Yale out front, 55 to 54. Then, with a minute left, a cool Bob Bramhall brought the game under control with a foul shot followed two plays later by Smith's basket...