Word: cools
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...lend it out to industrial countries that have financial emergencies. For example, if a big oil producer pulled all of its money out of sterling, the British could get an immediate loan from the pool to cover their currency loss. Some Common Market nations, particularly West Germany, are cool to the Kissinger plan because they and the U.S. would be left holding the bag for any loan defaults...
Nonetheless, there are serious problems involved in an Israeli-U.S. treaty. Although most Arabs would not be surprised by so formal an American commitment to Israel, it certainly would cool Arab-U.S. relations. Some experts believe that Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Jordan might acquiesce to an American military presence, but only if it were specifically tied to an Israeli withdrawal from the occupied territories and the creation of a Palestinian homeland...
...vivid image of the punishment of English hubris could he have asked for? All Turner is in his view of the conflagration: it is the essence of his delight in elemental conflict-fire raging in the clear mirror of water, its ruddy glow drifting west across a night sky cool as china...
...panic him. In a speech 40 years ago he said: "The world will go on somehow, and more crises will follow. It will go on best, however, if among us there are men who have stood apart, who refused to be anxious or too much concerned, who were cool and inquiring, and had their eyes on a longer past and a longer future." He was such...
...Purr. Pets are the surrogate children- and husbands and wives- of Western society, returning, for kibbles and kisses, companionship and devotion, or at least a cool tolerance accepted as love. Like pharaohs and czars and Caesars, Americans surround themselves with absurdly exalted animals. In a disjointed society and a disquieting world, these anthropomorphized adoptees can be counted on to wag and purr and warble, warming human hearts and hearths until they pass expensively on to await us in the Great Pet Sheraton Upstairs...