Word: aloofness
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Only Thomas Kuchel, the Senate's Minority Whip, and Christopher have remained aloof. Kuchel backed Christopher in the primary and is quoted as saying, "I know where Christopher stands, which is more than I can say about Ronald Reagan...
...coat. "What are you doing?" the teacher demanded. "Thank you very much," he replied, "but I have had enough." He wasn't kidding. In the years following, he was, by his own admission, "thrown out of every school in Austria. I absolutely hated school-all that stupid talk." Aloof even then, he was dubbed "the irritable Christ" by his mother. At 14, he finally convinced his father, chairman of the board of the Austro-Hungarian steel trust, that he should be tutored privately. He took up singing and he tried painting, but he soon decided that both his baritone...
...knew it: the government, striving to get as many voters as possible to the polls; the Viet Cong, hoping that their threats and grenades might frustrate the whole thing; the Buddhists, boy cotting the ballot box because it could not be stuffed to their specifications; and the U.S., standing aloof to let the Vietnamese speak for themselves...
Among the country's half-dozen major museums, Cleveland has long enjoyed a reputation as an aristocrat, partly because its location kept it aloof from the hurly-burly of the international art markets, partly because its purchases were often choice but eccentric, mainly because it was just plain loaded with money. Blessed throughout its existence with a string of benefactors who left it both fine collections and huge bequests, including the $33 million Leonard C. Hanna Jr. legacy, Cleveland now boasts an endowment yielding $1.3 million annually-just $100,000 under that of New York's Metropolitan...
...leaped to their feet and screamed wildly as the ball disappeared into the right-field bleachers and the batter loped casually around the bases. One of the loudest cheers came from Stan Musial, vice president of the opposing St. Louis Cardinals. Not even Plate Umpire Chris Pelekoudas could stand aloof as the player rounded third and touched home; Pelekoudas reached out and warmly shook his hand. Willie Mays had just hit the 535th homer of his wonderful career to go ahead of Jimmy Foxx as the greatest righthanded home-run hitter in baseball history...