Word: aloofness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Gromyko's entrance, a successful diplomat was a subtle, imaginative artist, who could improvise a stiff note to a fractious government as quickly as a compliment for a fat lady. But Gromyko behaves in chancelleries and council chambers with all the charm of a misanthropic robot. He is blunt, aloof, without imagination, without the right (or apparently the will) to independent thought. He refers every decision to Moscow. His diplomacy consists in executing Moscow's will to the letter, to the accompaniment of paraphrased Pravda editorials. He is assisted by Physics Professor Dmitri Vladimirovich Skobeltsin (Atomic Energy), Economist Alexander...
...players' first names. At first he leaned heavily for advice on Stanky and Pitcher Hugh Casey, but now he runs the team by himself. Only once-after the Dodgers had lost four straight to the Cards in June-has Boss Rickey called Shotton into a council of war. Aloof and respected, Shotton never smokes, drinks, or bawls out a player in public. He and Connie Mack are the only major-league managers who do not wear uniforms in the dugout...
Secretary Marshall told the Governors' Conference at Salt Lake City last night that the United States must increase its economic aid to Europe or else see a decline of democracy. At the same time in Washington Harold E. Stassen asked America not to "abandon" the eight small states remaining aloof from the Paris conference at Russia's instigation...
Temptation to break training flowed like champagne last Wednesday night at the Red Top victory banquet after the Yale Regatta; but the Varsity remained uncompromisingly aloof, as they have since they began following strict training rules last March...
...action a Russian quite so engaging as Jacob M. Lomakin, ex-Tassman, now consul general in New York City. A near-facsimile of cinemanful James Cagney, ebullient Consul Lomakin had no battery of deadpan advisers; behind him at each session sat a pert and pretty Russian blonde. Unlike icily aloof Andrei Gromyko, Lomakin chatted easily with those near him. He called the other delegates "fellow experts," and he uttered such un-Soviet statements as "We don't need to be consulting Moscow all the time," and "I will go along with what the majority thinks...