Word: aloofness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...coming up to his fourth term, Franklin Roosevelt gave the Democrats a choice between Harry Truman and Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas as the man to run with him. Last week some influential Democrats excitedly built a bonfire under aloof Bill Douglas to make him Harry Truman's running mate...
Jinnah now lives in lonely splendor at Government House in Karachi. Frosty and aloof as ever, he keeps his advisers and ministers at a respectful distance. His constant companion, and only close friend, is his 54-year-old sister Fatima. After their parents died, when Fatima was nine, Jinnah brought her up. She was a dentist for a year in Bombay; her first patient was brother Mohamed. She gave up dentistry to look after him when his wife died...
...newspapers paid little attention to him. Some who met him at parties and receptions described him as a disagreeable young man utterly uninterested in everything and everybody. After the wedding breakfast, while other guests, led by George VI, pelted Philip and Elizabeth with flower petals, Michael held aloof, finally walked away...
...Hollywood was still as clammily aloof as ever, but several foreign moviemakers were getting into the act. Gainsborough Associates agreed to procure for U.S. television several big-time British and continental films (including such hits as Mayerling and Open City). Televiewers could hope for something better than the drab diet of Bs that Hollywood provides...
Thus far both Universities have remained officially aloof from the controversy with no angry diplomatic notes exchanged...