Word: aloof
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...accused of having rehearsed, said tersely, "The clocks." He remembered they were both broken at the time of the operation. And although this testimony was supported only by his memory, the statement left a crucial fracture in a prosecution case that depends so graphically on the image of an aloof and calculating doctor whose eyes were transfixed by a second hand while a baby lay dying beneath his own hands...
...four years and thus was technically a freshly man again, they invited all the chair men to meet individually with them to answer questions about committee procedures and policy. "No one turned us down," reported Ottinger, who noted that he had never even met some of the formerly aloof chairmen in his previous six years in Congress. But now, figuratively hat in hand, the aging power brokers faced their upstart inquisitors...
...muddle of human affairs was no less firm than Voltaire's. His prowess at drawing his tory's sweep from the minutiae of daily events might have impressed even Gibbon. Had they discoursed on politics, he and Edmund Burke would have found themselves on the same aloof Olympian plane...
...normalization of U.S. relations with Cuba (TIME, Nov. 18), many delegates were convinced that the U.S. was ready to accept the lifting of sanctions. In fact, the American delegation did arrive in Quito intending to vote yes if an unbeatable majority developed. But as the vote neared, the aloof U.S. posture clearly worked against Cuba. An abstention frustrated a two-thirds majority almost as effectively as a negative ballot. At the same time, some nervous, borderline nations interpreted the abstention as an indication that the Ford Administration really did not want the embargo lifted...
...eyed and subdued, bent purposefully over a yellow legal pad. The normally dour H.R. Haldeman, his crew cut turned sleekly long, glanced tentatively at his onetime friend, but got no encouragement. Before stepping out to smoke his pipe, a pale, drawn, considerably older-looking John Mitchell, 61, had sat aloof. Once the nation's chief law enforcer as Attorney General, he now faced criminal charges for the second time...