Word: cools
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...world's problems seemed far away as Henry Kissinger sat at a small table outside his San Clemente office. The sun was bright, the air cool and clear. Flowers ringed the small patio, and beyond the immaculate lawn lay the blue Pacific. From this tranquil outpost, the world looked peaceful. Watergate seemed manageable, the Congress friendly, and the press tame. But Kissinger's strength is that he knows all this is deceptive. The real world is not so idyllic, and Kissinger wants to get back into the real world as fast...
...Richardson made a political name for himself as U.S. Attorney in Massachusetts by prosecuting Boston Industrialist Bernard Goldfine, provider of Sherman Adams' famous vicuna coat, on tax-evasion charges. A Rockefeller supporter in 1968, Richardson nonetheless was invited to Washington as an Under Secretary of State, and his cool, analytical grasp of complex situations attracted the attention of Nixon. Such tough thinking seemed all too rare at the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, and in 1970 Richardson was picked to supply it as Secretary. Though critics contended that he weakened the drive for school desegregation by failing...
...Paris and Bonn. It flared into the open this month when Jacques Chirac, France's Minister of Agriculture and a close confidant of President Georges Pompidou, complained that "I am concerned by the way that Germany is turning away from Europe." West German Chancellor Willy Brandt attempted to cool the exchange, dismissing Chirac's remarks as the mutterings of a low-level official. But some of the Chancellor's colleagues have privately retaliated, charging that "the French are suffering from gaps of logic...
...rate has slipped to 7%. By historic standards, that is still a rapid increase, but it is not swift enough to supply all the funds that borrowers of all kinds want to get their hands on. The Federal Reserve governors believe that borrowing must be discouraged in order to cool off an inflationary economy...
...demands style and elegance above win-lost records, who interrupts crucial matches for summit conference on the strip and winds up after two or three or five minutes of frantic gesticulation and commentary, winds up after failing to find the words to fit the crisis, winds up emphasizing in cool an desperate tones: "You must...