But if cool heads prevail, peacemaking metaphors could yet become as pervasive as today's bellicose ones.

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Let us hope that cool heads will be in the lead and avoid the policies that so clearly would hurt us all.

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Cool heads were noting that while intentions have been expressed, there has been no significant progress yet on the Middle East peace process.

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One week after the 11 September terrorist attacks, the Scottish secretary called for "cool heads" as Scotland waited to assess its economic impact.

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What was wanted now, he said, was "cool heads, strong leadership" and a proper discussion between the prime minister, force leaders, and the police association the Police Federation.

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This is the time for cool temperament and wise heads.

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"I don't know why otherwise cool and calculating people lose their heads in the mountains, but they do, " says Richard Kahl, editor of Ski Area Management magazine.

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Still a student at Brigham Young University in 2002, Neff started a miniscule beanie business, buying the caps at 99 cent stores, embroidering them, and finding any possible way to get them on the heads of a few cool snowboarders.

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The air inside was cool and musty and there was a constant squeaking from the bats as they fluttered above our heads.

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