Word: cools
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...finances, operating from plush State Street bank offices, escaping to North Shore farmhouses and summer homes on the Cape. In one of the more effective vignettes in the book, Lupo juxtaposes a Republican-sponsored cocktail party in placid Dover with the frantic, non-stop efforts of Kevin White to cool the city down...
...defender of our precious individual liberties, bouncing up and down on his tiptoes and booming out in a high-pitched, rapid-fire cadence. In the other stood William F. Buckley, author, columnist, and Yale man, pleading--with raised eyebrows--for a decent and self-governed society in his cool, calm, collected style...
After a stop in New York City to refuel, pick up a new flight crew and 14 more passengers, the plane flew on to the Canaries. There was no grumbling when word came that they would land temporarily at Tenerife, but the early-afternoon weather there was disappointing?cool, windy and foggy. The Clipper pulled into a holding area off one end of the runway. Some passengers stood at an open door to take photos of KLM 4805 as it refueled just ahead of them...
...Ornano, Giscard's personal choice for the job. Giscard did his best to gloss over this humiliating loss. When Chirac was formally presented at the Elysée as "Monsieur le Maire de Paris," the President graciously responded, "Et cher ami" (and dear friend). Later Chirac tried to cool tempers at a meeting of Gaullist parliamentarians, many of whom had been openly derisive of Giscard. "We will be loyal," he said, "but we will exercise our vigilance to make sure that the policies of the government take into account our point of view...
...wealthy, he writes. "There is that terrible needle through which the affluent must be threaded before they can emerge in paradise. Accordingly, if you are either rich or a camel, you should, as a purely practical calculation, enjoy life now." Behind this elegant raillery, Galbraith maintains a cool, doctor-patient relationship with the world. The combination of wit and seriousness makes him a distinguished popularizer and advocate who can waltz through wars, revolutions, famines, depressions and global follies without ever losing the crease of his Savile Row prose. R.Z. Sheppard