Word: cools
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wasteland between Waco and Austin. They had been ordered to Chicago as part of the force massed by Mayor Richard Daley to guard the Democratic Convention from antiwar demonstrators and a feared eruption of Negro militants. The violence that later engulfed the convention was viewed with cool, apolitical disdain by Chicago's Negroes, but Daley was taking no chances. The 43 troopers were black too. And rather than risk having to oppose soul brothers with bayonets and gas grenades, they were determined to flout their orders and face punishment by military courts...
...enforcement and other policy matters that crucially affect Negro neighborhoods. In Detroit, which has only 328 blacks on its 4,656-man force, 40% of the cadets now in the police academy are Negroes. In several cases, black militants have been given local government jobs and other incentives to cool...
...three days and three nights, through intermittent downpours, the musicians held the first Sky River Rock Festival and Lighter than Air Fair. The music was incessant, loud, wild and swinging-folk rock, just plain folk, acid rock, cool jazz, blues, country and Western. There were tents pitched in Betty's muddy meadow, but nobody did much sleeping. The first night, everybody stayed up listening to the music until 2:30 a.m., then watched a psychedelic light show and underground movies. The next night, they never went to bed at all. With the morning came a "Sun Dance." The musicians...
...explanation, the scientists say, is that the Nitinol alloy was heated and shaped above its "transitional" temperature range - the temperature at which there is an atomic shift, or a change in its crystalline structure - then allowed to cool. No matter how they then distorted the alloy when it was below its transitional temperature, the atoms dutifully shifted right back to their original positions as soon as the alloy was heated above that temperature again...
...thick interspersed with limestone blocks. Holes cut in the limestone enabled inspectors to keep an eye on the sewer system underneath. The Romans had also anticipated the roadside refreshment stand by building a bar at the edge of the road, complete with earthen vases in which beverages were kept cool. A chariot driver could pull up to the bar and drink standing up while his horses drank at an adjacent fountain...