Word: aloof
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sound administrator through nine years in the office. He moved up to state auditor in 1953, was soundly whipped by Democrat Frank Lausche when he ran for Governor in 1954, was reelected to his third term as auditor by a remarkable 700,000 votes in 1960. While Rhodes remained aloof from the state G.O.P. organization, he nursed his personal public relations, turned a room next to his private office into a statehouse reporters' lounge stocked with coffee, cheese and peanut-butter sandwiches...
...newspapers can be bought in Budapest hotel lobbies. But unlike most other Hungarian intellectuals, who tentatively raised soft voices of comment within the limits set down by the regime, Dery cloaked his reaction to the changing times in silence. He published nothing, was inaccessible to visiting Westerners, even remained aloof from other Hungarian writers. Occasionally he was seen in the street carrying an ice-cream cone to his wife, who edits U.S. news for the Communist Party newspaper...
...opposing forces that will clash at the council. Says Archbishop Denis Hurley of Durban, South Africa: "There will be much disputing in the nave of St. Peter's over how the church must enter the Atomic Age." A number of conservative bishops believe that the church should stand aloof from the pressures of a temporal world, holding fast to its traditions. Led by such impressive figures as Alfredo Cardinal Ottaviani of the Holy Office, Ernesto Cardinal Ruffini of Palermo and Giuseppe Cardinal Siri of Genoa, the "integralists" include nearly every bishop in Italy and Spain, a majority...
...company's profit figures are to be guarded like nuclear secrets. But to a growing degree, European executives are recognizing that public opinion does affect their business. Though his predecessor as chairman of Belgium's Société Générale was so aloof that he Defused even to release his photo for publication, new Chairman Max Nokin freely allows both pictures and interviews in an effort to counter charges that his firm is meddling in Congolese politics. More important, with European workers now earning better wages, their employers are finding that their best market...
...unconcerned as an old plow horse," said his groom. "He's shy and aloof, and at times he can be a bit uppity, but he can afford to be, now that he is a star." He certainly got star treatment; so that he would not have to tread unfamiliar soil, his trainer imported a truckload of clay for his stall from Goshen...