Word: aloof
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bureaucratic rigidity of a Holyoke Center or William James, anyway. Tucked away in a relatively untravelled corner of the University, the small, dark old fraternity house has open stairwells, crowded offices that open onto the halls, and connecting passageways between offices. It would be hard to stay aloof from the general traffic, even though the chaos does sometimes make it hard to get much work done, Toland says...
...that France is being battered economically. Inflation during the second half of 1976 is projected at 12%-one of the highest rates in Europe. The value of the franc dipped from 4.4 to the dollar to 4.6, and once even plummeted to 5. All the while, Giscard maintained an aloof indifference that his critics saw as inertia...
...impatient with endless faculty meetings, such as five sessions to discuss whether or not to install a toilet in the watchman's booth. At Harvard, they typed her as basically hostile, "a female Mencken." Her Cambridge curt speaking manner bugs the Bennington artsies; her demeanor comes across as aloof, cynical and supercilious. She says she wants to be "queen of the hop on a larger scale...
Wooing Nader. Carter's road show was boffo with Consumer Advocate Ralph Nader, who proclaimed Carter "a breath of fresh air." During a visit with Carter in Plains, Ga., the generally aloof Nader even allowed himself to be roped into umpiring a Softball game-the only one Pitcher Carter has lost in eight outings. (Joking about Nader's performance as an umpire, Carter later quipped: "Both sides said he was lousy-and I can't disagree with that.") Two days after the Plains visit, Nader introduced Carter at a Public Citizen forum in Washington, at which...
...safaris, Admiral Richard E. Byrd for his expedition to Antarctica. Fisherman Herbert Hoover, Golfers Woodrow Wilson and Dwight Eisenhower and all-round author-out-doorsman Ernest Hemingway also shopped there. Its stock of firearms and tackle equipment was among the world's largest and finest, and its aloof sales staff was made up of technical experts in A. & F.'s wares. A. & F.'s Manhattan store on Madison Avenue was a showcase of such exotic items as $300 miniature antique cannons, $1,188 Yukon dog sleds, and portable stone furnaces for heating cabins on yachts. It even...