Word: aloof
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Communications Satellite Corp. went on the market six months ago at $20 a share, demand for it was so great that brokers rationed it to 50 shares or less per customer and only the favored few got their piece of space. But professional Wall Streeters generally stood aloof, willing to sell it but not so willing to buy. Comsat might become the bluest of space-age blue chips, they said, but that was many profitless years away...
Instead of seeking rapport with his members, McDonald grew increasingly aloof. He golfed with steel executives, used his $50,000 salary (he also gets a generous expense account) to patronize nightclubs from Manhattan to Los Angeles and in many other ways enjoy the good life. In addition to his seven-room fieldstone home in a Pittsburgh suburb, he bought a second house in Palm Springs, and spent much of his time there...
...kind of anticolonialism on the part of locals that want to play a bigger role, partly by the political and technological challenges - such as automation - that have created a climate of discontent in U.S. unions. To many in the rank and file, labor's aristocracy seems old, aloof, often tyrannical, and too busy discoursing on foreign policy or participating in university colloquia to keep in touch with grass-roots concerns. Some annoying habits of union leaders that are ignored so long as they deliver-frequent travel, conspicuously high living-begin to pall when there is less left to deliver...
...Iowa's six Republican seats, held mostly by conservatives, slipped away; the survivor was H. R. Gross (TiME, June 15, 1962), who has won a reputation more as an anti-spendthrift than a conservative. On the other hand, many of the G.O.P. survivors are moderates who remained aloof from Goldwater and will vote with the Johnson Administration a good part of the time. They include such potentials toward higher office as Manhattan's John Lindsay, Minnesota's Clark MacGregor, Massachusetts' Silvio Conte and F. Bradford Morse...
...President's reaction to stories from the overthrow of Khrushchev to the Walter Jenkins case is newsworthy; in situations where Goldwater's reaction would be of interest, the Jenkins case, for instance, the Senator has tended to stay aloof and let his subordinates do the shouting. The press devotes yards of copy to him because he is a Presidential candidate, but apart from throwing out an occasional stimulating idea (such as his tax cut plan) Goldwater has done little to earn his space...