Word: aloof
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Aloof & Hostile. The country is completely alien to their experience. It lies in the middle of nowhere: 8,000 miles from the U.S., part of a uvular peninsula jutting into the South China Sea. Everywhere they turn, the U.S. correspondents find obstacles standing in the way of dispassionate reporting. None of them speak the language with any fluency-and their Vietnamese contacts seldom speak English. When possible, they resort to the country's second language-French...
...strong police power, and by his tiny sister-in-law-who holds no office at all. At the battlefront, both U.S. military observers and the Vietnamese brass blandly tell the newsmen stories that blatantly contradict evidence obvious to the journalists' eyes. In Saigon, the ruling family is reserved, aloof, openly hostile; it does not trust the Western correspondents-and does not trouble to hide its feelings...
...Pushover." In his new role as political humorist, Art Buchwald takes pains to stay aloof from official Washington. "I feel a pundit like me shouldn't see people," says Buchwald, who has yet to meet the President-or want to. "It only confuses me. When you talk to Senators and Congressmen, you get the impression they are working, and you know it isn't true. And people have a tendency to win you over with flattery. I'm a pushover. I figure a guy who likes my column...
...sooner had the Chinese attacked India last year than the usually aloof Red Chinese diplomats scurried from their rambling Karachi embassy compound to court the Pakistanis. In December Ayub readily accepted China's offer to redraw the border between China's Sinkiang region and the Pakistan-controlled portion of Kashmir in a way favorable to Pakistan. A trade agreement followed in January, and recently Pakistan's Foreign Minister hinted broadly that China had agreed to aid Pakistan against possible Indian attack. Last week Pakistan and Communist China signed an airline agreement that could make Pakistan...
That left the whole messy business in the lap of Congress-where Kennedy had pitched it five weeks ago by asking for legislation setting up compulsory arbitration machinery. Congress also would have loved to stay aloof-but now there was little choice. "The time has come," said New Hampshire's Norris Cotton, senior Republican on the Senate Commerce Committee, "for us to fish, cut bait, or go ashore...