Word: aloofness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...quite a comedown from a bare five months ago, however, when every major Republican candidate had at least some separate backing here, while the Democrats were split down the middle between Truman and Douglas. HLU jumped into the Democratic rift by backing Truman, but the Young Republican Club stayed aloof from any squabbling amongst their own members...
...Like a Bullfight." Parker, twice national champion (1944 and 1945) and runner-up last year to Jake Kramer, played his aloof, passionless way into the quarter-finals without dropping a set. Then he encountered Richard ("Pancho") Gonzales, 20, the easygoing, hard-hitting Mexican-American from Los Angeles (TIME, May 19,1947), who was only No. 17 in the national ranking...
...sins Gomulka was deprived of his job as party secretary general. Into the secretaryship Moscow put Poland's President Boleslaw Bierut, another underground graduate who had pretended since his emergence in 1945 that he was aloof from party influences...
...friendly side of Bob Eichelberger soon won the Japanese. He picked up hitchhikers in his car, swapped gifts with peddlers on the streets. His office door was always open to a Japanese. Unlike MacArthur, he got around, made friends with hundreds of big and little Japanese. To the Japanese, aloof, impersonal Douglas MacArthur had supplanted their Emperor as the personification of supreme authority. Eichelberger became a symbol of U.S. democracy and fairness. Many Japanese said "Aikerubaga" in the same affectionate tone used by many of his soldiers in calling him "Uncle...
...Hungarian Reformed Church, published an article on his visit in a Swiss church paper. He declared himself much impressed by the Reformed Church's refusal to join with the Hungarian Roman Catholics against the present Communist-controlled government. The Reformed Church, wrote Earth approvingly, was holding aloof from both East and West; instead of concerning itself with politics, it was concentrating on formulating the Word of God in fresh terms...