Word: cools
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years Mohamed Ali Jinnah had kindled the fires of civil war with his slogan "Pakistan or die!" Last week, as tan dust swirled through New Delhi on the year's hottest day (112°), it was up to Jinnah to cool off his Moslem League...
Altogether it was a bad week for the Democrats, but a great week for the precise-minded son of the nation's gusty 26th President. He had probably not grown in personal popularity among his fellow Republicans, but personal popularity is not the strength of cool, twang-tongued Bob Taft...
Last week, in the cool hills of Simla, the man who could make or break the British plan for an independent Indian government spoke 2,500 cautious words. Mohamed Ali Jinnah criticized the plan, but notably refrained from calling on his Moslem followers to resist...
Meanwhile, as dusty winds howled in from the plains to cool off sweltering Delhi, the Congress Party Working Committee repaired each day to Mohandas Gandhi's spruced-up quarters in the Untouchable sweepers' district. The Congress had not yet publicly endorsed the British proposals, but its activity indicated that it was ready to take part in the interim government provided for in the plan...
...National Spelling Bee: 18 were girls, ten boys. But a few minutes later Nancy was out, for misspelling liar. About 400 words later, there were a boy and a girl left, each 13. The boy, shy and nervous, was John McKinney of Woodbine, Iowa (pop. 1,350); the girl, cool and confident, was Mary McCarthy of New York City...