Word: cools
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...house, there were foul poles (garden posts) and an on-deck circle with extra bats (if you swung two or more at a time, you were pretty cool). There was a home-made dugout occupied only by the "ghost runners" and even a resin bag (stuffed and clipped white rag) on the mound...
...most notable and unresolved disputes involved farm subsidies. The Reagan administration has been cutting subsidies at home and would like to see a commitment from European nations to do the same. The Europeans are cool to the proposal and the leaders agreed only to study the issue...
...Libyans, who make a point of observing the niceties of the relationship between host and guest, were understandably cool to the U.S. correspondents. "Their mood was sullen and angry," notes TIME's Fischer, "but their hostility did not seem directed at us." After Gaddafi's brief TV appearance Wednesday night, demonstrators began chanting "Down, Down, U.S.A.!" in front of the hotel, while others, in a more festive mood, organized a horn-tooting, flag-waving victory procession along the city's + corniche. Libyan radio reports that U.S. pilots had been lynched by furious mobs did not engender affection for Americans...
Some Americans see Nicaragua drenched in a dangerous sea of red. Others view the country as bathed in a brilliant aureole of white light. Forget gray. Much as in the debate that polarized Americans during the war in Viet Nam, cool heads and dispassionate judgments seldom prevail in a discussion of U.S.-Nicaraguan relations. The Sandinistas are either hard-core Communists with a cruelly totalitarian agenda or committed revolutionaries with a uniquely Latin American vision of the future. The U.S.-backed contras, on the other hand, are either brave freedom fighters or treacherous mercenaries. WARNING: entry into the debate...
...busy exploring the bared behind of Lorette Welter, 30, personal assistant to a Liberal member of parliament. In the pages that follow, Cevaal and Welter are shown showering, bubble-bathing and sleeping together in the altogether. When an affronted parliamentary chairman demanded an explanation, the gladhanding lovers turned suddenly cool. Welter said that she merely wished "to give politics a romantic flavor." Cevaal, asserting, somewhat needlessly perhaps, that the couple had "nothing to hide," said that they had volunteered to pose, without charging a fee, in order to show that "politicians are human too." Unimpressed by those explanations, the Liberals...