Word: aloof
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...burly, down-to-earth pragmatist with an earthy vocabulary, Dr. Phillips, 48, has given Krebiozen to about 300 patients -more than any other physician. He keeps aloof from the charges and countercharges about Krebiozen. He is convinced that Krebiozen helps his patients. But he frankly admits that he cannot be sure. He has neither the training nor the time-, to become a research scientist, he says...
...fact that Richards works so closely with his players, none would ever slap him on the back, and few call him anything but "Mr. Richards." Murtaugh may drop into the locker room for a few hands of bridge or gin with his Pirates, but Richards prefers to remain socially aloof from his Orioles: "It's more fun for the players when I'm not there while they're relaxing." As a firm but fair taskmaster, Richards has earned the solid respect of the Orioles, veteran and rookie alike...
Lodge came home full of honors and decorations, and convinced that the U.S. should never again hold aloof from world events. ("He commenced as a conservative and thawed into a progressive," says his old friend and Harvard roommate, John Mason Brown...
...black plane with the high tail looked out of place among the shiny military jets crowding the U.S. Air Force base at Incirlik, near Adana, Turkey. Its wide wings drooped with delicate languor-like a squatting seagull, too spent to fly. Its pilot seemed equally odd: a dark, aloof young man who wore a regulation flying suit and helmet but no markings, and had a revolver on his hip. Pilot Francis Gary Powers, 30, climbed into the one-man cockpit, gunned the black ship's single engine, and as the plane climbed toward take-off speed, the wide wings...
...long-windedly debating constitutional changes. In Pusan, Taegu, and Seoul itself, they staged new demonstrations demanding dissolution of the Assembly. Army Boss Lieut. General Song Yo Chan called out armored cars, tanks and tear gas, but ordered his troops to avoid strong-arm tactics. "The army will stay aloof from politics," declared the government. As for the hated Assembly, it was willing to bring charges against five of its Liberal Party members and expel them. But the legislators, pro and anti Rhee alike, seemed in no hurry to vote themselves out of office before the new elections expected in July...