Word: cools
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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John Silber is never one to back down in a confrontation. Cool, brilliant, and articulate, he fires verbal salvos with wilting accuracy--he once described faculty activists as "coffee house unionists" and reminded a student union president of his "pimples...
...controlled of men, said he sympathized with the demonstrators, even the violent ones. "I'd feel like taking a punch at one [an Iranian] myself, if I could get to him," said Byrd. Added Carter: "Every American feels anger and outrage at what is happening." In an effort to cool tempers at home. Carter had previously asked the Immigration and Naturalization Service to press deportation proceedings against any Iranian students who were residing illegally in the U.S. Though the White House emphasized that the President had not ordered a "roundup and mass deportation," the action caused panic among many...
...they could and that West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt and British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, in particular, had strongly supported Carter. Schmidt told colleagues: "The West must show unity. We must back the U.S." If the Europeans were restrained, it was probably because 1) it was a time for "cool professionalism," as an American diplomat put it; 2) the U.S. had not asked for or expected stronger public support; and 3) Iran supplies 9% of West Germany's oil imports and 20% of Britain...
After six hellish years, a cool arm burns up the heavens...
...Hertz counter in Eugene, Ore., waiting to rent a car. The man who broke Norm Van Brocklin's records at the University of Oregon, who only two days earlier had set a National Football League record by passing for 300-plus yds. in four consecutive games, had to cool his heels while a clerk called the San Diego Chargers to determine if Daniel Francis Fouts was indeed one of their employees...