Word: aloof
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Though they still are wary of his power over the bazaars and the street mobs, neither Jordan's King Hussein, nor Saudi Arabia's King Saud nor Iraq's Premier Karim Kassem has proved willing to accept his leadership. The Sudan, Libya and Lebanon remain cautiously aloof, despite Nasser's best efforts. Though Nasser supported the Algerian rebels with arms and sanctuary, the current peace negotiations are the work of Tunisia's moderate President Bourguiba, with whom Nasser has long been at odds. Publicly, he is forced to approve Algerian peace talks. But if they...
...keeps an office in Boston, most of the operations of Drew's eleven-man outfit are carried out in the basement of his stucco, five-bedroom house in Newton Center, Mass. "What's the point of being in Wall Street?" he asks. "Out here you're aloof from the scuttlebutt, the emotions and social entanglements of life in a financial district." Drew spends most of his time in sports clothes, frequently needs a haircut...
Since coming to NATO in 1957 as successor to Britain's Lord Ismay, Spaak has kept aloof from Belgian politics, is not tainted by any association either with last summer's Congo crisis or with the strikes, which cost Belgium an estimated $230 million and reopened the ancient quarrel between the northern Walloons and the southern Flemings. Spaak laid down one condition for his return to Belgian politics: virtually a free hand in the management of Socialist Party affairs. With no other candidate of comparable stature in sight, the Socialists reluctantly agreed. "Citizen Spaak is really very demanding...
...young men I grew up with-not because of them but because of their life. I didn't know what I wanted. I was still floundering." Her friends sensed her feelings. "She had the reputation of being very frigid," says Jonathan Isham. "She was rather aloof and reserved, but everybody liked her, although she seemed to talk an awful lot about animals...
...Palace, President Charles de Gaulle last week savored his victory in the nationwide referendum. "A good result," said De Gaulle contentedly. When a Minister suggested that he should make a speech of thanks to the electorate, De Gaulle replied loftily, "France cannot thank France," and then retired into that aloof silence which he has said "enhances authority...