Word: cools
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...invited vice-presidential prospects made their pilgrimages to Peanutville, U.S.A. In Plains, Ga., Jimmy Carter held court. Edmund Muskie-elegant, imposing, a bit haughty but willing ("I suppose I have an appetite for almost anything in politics that is new and different"). Walter Mondale -witty, cool, eager, even though he had found that campaigning for the presidency meant he had to spend too much time in Holiday Inns ("I have checked, and they have been redecorated. That is where I would like to be"). John Glenn -a hero still, warm, attractive, a bit edgy (Aren't military...
...heat letter to the London Times suggested that since Romans were known for their dignity, perhaps gentlemen should switch to togas. Switching to topless bathing in the fountains of Trafalgar Square, however, cost three young ladies a police summons. Even the royal family was having trouble keeping its cool, since neither Buckingham Palace nor Windsor Castle is air-conditioned. Said a palace spokesman: "All we can do is to throw open all the windows and try not to think about...
...Catherine actually at the point of deposing Potemkin? With a cool display of indifference, the prince spent most of the past month in a leisurely tour of his southern dominions. He has no intention, however, of staying away from the capital indefinitely. On his return to St. Petersburg, he is planning to move out of the Winter Palace?but only to a hotel near the Hermitage, which is connected to the palace by a private passage. Indeed, some court sources suggest that it was Potemkin himself who actually selected Secretary Zavadovsky as Catherine's new adjutant general because he knows...
...most striking thing about the journals is Bartram's joy in "scenes of nature as yet unmodified by the hand of man." The dark forests are not at all frightening to him. Rather, they are "delightful," "shady," "cool," "verdant." Except for a few references to "musquitoes," he seems either not to have encountered chiggers, horseflies and other such pests, or else to be oblivious to them. As to the real dangers of the wilderness, Bartram believes that studying nature reveals above all "the power of the Creator...
...impressive forms of government that doomed Rome, Gibbon believes. He traces this lack to the very first Emperor, Augustus, who ruled from 27 B.C. to A.D. 14. Augustus' predecessor and adoptive father, Julius Caesar, had been assassinated in the Senate, and this worked its effect on "a cool head, an unfeeling heart and a cowardly disposition." Augustus, Gibbon says, "wished to deceive the people by an image of civil liberty, and the armies by an image of civil government." Because he left the Senate its pomp and privilege as he stole its authority, the deception succeeded. It proved...