Word: froid
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...humans, that is called sangfroid. And if you don't have any sang, you can be very froid. But then again if Meade had known absolutely--by calculating the precise trajectories of all the bullets and all the bayonets and all the cannons in Pickett's division--the time of arrival of the enemy, he could indeed, without fear, have ordered his men to pick apples...
...inscription upon the mantle of the fireplace in the Great Hall, for I believe it aptly betrays the opportunistic and unethical role of the University in this ill-conceived proposal and it exposes Harvard's violation of her sacred trusteeship. It unmasks Harvard as the ugly and loveless, sang froid entity into which it sadly has metamorphosed. It is a stern warning against such unthinkable shortsightedness...