Word: cools
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...White House next day, the President himself did his best to correct any impression the world might have that he was cool toward Herter. He mustered the entire Cabinet for the swearing-in ceremony, said that Dulles and he were one in considering Herter "the man best qualified to take over the office." Said Herter: "I appreciate your confidence in me, Mr. President." Said Ike, gripping him at the elbow: "You certainly have that." And when Herter got back to the State Department, he found waiting to greet him on the steps some 600 State Department staffers. Said...
Jack Heffernan's Brown Cubs, if as good as past Bruin freshman teams, may cool off the high-flying Crimson nine. The Yardlings have played up to every pre-season expectation, and Samborski hopes the team's recent well-balanced play will continue...
...pursued a course of sainthood to his death. And by the simple process of digging up the diaries of three French writers, he makes old gossip seem as juicily Gallic as a Paris headline scandal. Points of View is, in fact, as bland a job of literary borrowing and cool transformation as has been seen in some time...
...South Pole to Norway's Roald Amundsen in 1911. Shackleton conceived a scheme of sailing to the Atlantic coast of Antarctica and sledging across the continent via the Pole to the Pacific. He called it "the largest and most striking of all journeys." The Royal Geographical Society was cool to the idea-as well it might be. The feat was not achieved until 43 years later, when Britain's Sir Vivian Fuchs last year took 99 days to travel the route, using heated tractors and reconnaissance airplanes...
...Street and the corporations it serves can do a great deal more to curb uninformed speculation by their own efforts, instead of wagging a finger at the public. When irresponsible rumors boom a stock, company officials often keep quiet rather than making the prompt denials that would cool it off. Many a stock has been run up on wild rumors when there is so little stock available that any buying or selling sends it rollercoasting. The exchange has the power to suspend trading when the floating supply of stock in an issue is less than 30,000 shares. By raising...