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Word: cools (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hustle back to Holyoke Center in time to pick up your new bursars car for just 10 bucks, and then it's back to Central. (This time, you can afford to take the subway.) With just ten such Bursars card turnovers each week, you'll be bringing in a cool hundred at least, and eating STEAK at the Voyagers. And you'll be doing a good turn for people who often can't afford to eat at all. If they start asking questions at Holyoke Center, tell 'em to mind their own business. After all, whose idea were these...

Author: By Richard S. Weisman, | Title: Bursarmania | 5/27/1977 | See Source »

...indulge in just one more sexist moment? This happened, not to me, but to my roommate. My roommate believes that, no matter what happens in the presence of a beautiful woman, there is always one dictum to be followed: Thou Shalt Never Lose Thine Cool...

Author: By John A. Spritz, | Title: Pranks and embarrassments | 5/27/1977 | See Source »

...KEEPING COOL. I have not yet felt the President's anger. I'm told there is a blue vein that starts throbbing. I haven't seen it yet, though I suspect it is there. But I'm still alive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Privy to All the Facts and Options' | 5/23/1977 | See Source »

Jesse Winchester: Nothing but a Breeze (Bearsville). "Me, I want to live with my feet in Dixie/ And my head in the cool blue North," sings Jesse Winchester on the title cut of his fifth album. Although he is now a Canadian citizen, having gone north to avoid the draft a decade ago, Winchester has never forsaken his Tennessee roots. His folkish simplicity and Southern warmth go down like good country cider-easily, and with an occasional gentle kick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Tops in Pops | 5/23/1977 | See Source »

...center of her coffee table and fill it with gold-painted walnuts? Why, he asks, do so many blacks drink Kool-Aid and smoke Kool cigarettes? Birmingham's answers are even more idiosyncratic than his questions. He theorizes that "the associations of the words Kool and cool, as in 'keeping one's cool' and 'playing it cool,' have much to do with this." But progress, at least Birmingham's notion of it, is at hand; he has noticed that more upwardly mobile blacks are now "es-chewing Cadillacs in favor of compacts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Skin Deep | 5/16/1977 | See Source »

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