Word: aloofness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...meeting had more lung power than political strength. The delegates, except for those from Mississippi and Alabama, were political outs and has-beens. Most bigwig Southern politicos pointedly stayed away. Even Arkansas' Governor Ben Laney, who had withdrawn as the rebels' favorite son at Philadelphia, remained aloof in his downtown hotel room, contented himself with offering advice...
...terms as Iowa's governor, wavy-haired Robert D. Blue seemed to do his utmost to be unpopular. Aloof and often autocratic, he browbeat his legislature, gave little heed to rising growls from the voters. In Iowa such unpolitic conduct sometimes does not matter. A Republican could always count on enough organization votes in the primary...
...spite of Japan's new coeducational schools, which are warmly encouraged by the U.S., Japanese schoolboys were still acting like aloof little gentlemen-they kept away from the girls, scorned anyone who didn't. In one high school, students got so mad at a classmate who went around with girls that they killed...
...groups hold themselves aloof from this complex interlocking directorate. The John Reed Society, a Marxist study group, takes no part in political action and limits itself to philosophic contemplation. The same can be said for the Student League for Industrial Democracy, which has renounced all former affiliation with the Liberal Union and the old Student Union to pursue its own quiet ways. Neither the Free Enterprise Society nor the all-but-extinct Conservative League meddle with action, following their own cautious paths unmolested...
Opponents of the blanket fee have protested that they prefer to contribute directly to clubs and activities of their own choice, as they do under the present Pay Day system; have declared that the fee taxes students who choose to remain aloof from undergraduate activities; and have charged that the increase from $5.75, the present minimum levy, to $12.00 is too great a boost...