Word: aloof
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Committee, exposure that appears strong enough to catapult him to the other end of the Hill. Maryland voters sent the present incumbent, Republican J. Glenn Beall, to the Senate six years ago as a replacement for Joseph P. Tydings, a liberal Democrat considered by many as too aristocratic and aloof to appeal to ethnic, working-class voters in Baltimore. Sarbanes's Greek ancestry provides natural ties to these voters, while his Rhodes scholar background helps him among the intellectual chic of Washington's suburbs...
...PARADOXICAL, THEN, that in the two months since he secured the Democratic nomination, Jimmy Carter has shifted his tactics, vigorously attacking Ford's stands on defense, unemployment, agriculture and foreign policy; Ford, on the other hand, has--with the exception of the televised debates--striven to appear somewhat aloof and presidential. It is now Ford who is conducting an image--rather than issues--oriented campaign...
...that wide receivers seem to be such a different breed? Perhaps it is because of their position in the game's structure. Even more than the quarterback, the wide receiver is aloof from the battles of the "trenches" and the sharp impacts that characterize the game. Instead, the wide receiver darts through the battling titans and if he captures the ball, their battles are rendered relatively meaningless...
Canada's aloof Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, 56, was once considered a dashing new face on the political scene. But after eight years in power, Canadians see him as all too familiar and feel the same way about his government. With the popularity of his Liberal regime fairly crashing in the polls, Trudeau last week decided it was time for a cosmetic treatment. He announced a sweeping Cabinet shakeup, unmistakably designed to help him get back into good graces with the electorate before the next elections...
...mansion after I'm elected, and we'll set on the front porch and piss over the rail at them city bastards." Carter quotes Reinhold Niebuhr and Bob Dylan rather than traditional Southern heroes. He is more self-disciplined than many a Southerner, aloof to the point of loneliness...