Word: cools
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...celebrated on "the fields of praise." Lying with his paramour Captain Polyxygis thinks: "There's nothing in this world above to equal woman." A young Greek asks Captain Michales' centenarian father: "How has life seemed to you during those hundred years. Grandfather?" "Like a glass of cool water, my child." replies the old man. "And are you still thirsty, Grandfather?" "The graybeard raised his hand . . . 'Woe to him,' he cried in a loud voice, as though he were pronouncing a curse, 'woe to him who has slaked his thirst!' " For Captain Michales himself there...
Triggered by moist tropical air, which the Pacific jet stream freakishly shot in from Hawaii over cool northern Califor nia, a tremendous downpour began at mid-month. The downfall deposited as much as 31.5 inches of rain by Dec. 26, melted Sierra snowpacks like a blowtorch, streamed off steep hillsides in the rugged redwood country. Swollen mountain streams burst out of the woods like furious brown snakes, swallowing topsoil and drowning animals. The Klamath, Russian, Mad, Eel, Ten Mile, Navarro and other rivers picked up speed, boiled out of gorges toward the Pacific, wrecked railroads and cut coastal U.S. Highway...
...calls attention to the breadth and depth of the U.S.'s concern with the people of other lands. Last week David Dubinsky, boss of the International Ladies' Garment Workers Union, announced a handsome gift for the citizens of Beersheba, Israel: a cool $1,000,000 to build a hospital, the city's first...
...left, says frequently that he does not want Communist support, and would not accept it. But his message in L'Express was a reminder of how this cunning politician, with his ambition to give France a domestic New Deal, has also shown a cool willingness to reduce, even shuck off, France's foreign responsibilities, and to cut her down to a small power with neutralist tendencies. He seemed to be suggesting to the Communist voters that he too has reservations about a foreign policy they hate, and that he is a man who can be reasoned with...
...nuclei can affect the spin of other nuclei near them. So high-energy spin can spread through a substance in much the same way that heat does. Low-energy spin can spread, too, so a substance whose atoms are motionless in the ordinary sense can still lose energy and cool below absolute zero...