Word: aloofness
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Beyond Significance. "Edith Stein's entry into Carmel," said her prioress, "was, in fact, a descent from the height of a brilliant career into the depths of insignificance." In the depths of insignificance, Edith Stein changed. She who had often been cool and aloof found herself wearing a red wig and performing a Chaucerian skit during a convent entertainment; she who had been intolerant of weakness learned charity by falling asleep during meditation. In time, says Author Graef, "Edith Stein became a perfectly harmonious spiritual personality...
...deeply committed to labor unity, in principle, as was Meany. There were those who suspected-perhaps unfairly-that Reuther's ambition would keep him out of a federation headed by Meany. But even if his ambition had outrun his convictions, Reuther had little practical chance to stand aloof from Meany's vigorous wooing. The antagonism of the Steelworkers' Dave McDonald and some other C.I.O. leaders toward Reuther was undisguised. The C.I.O. could elect reunion with the A.F.L.-or fragmentation. Whatever the mixture of Reuther's motives, he worked honestly and actively with Meany for a merger...
...senior Senator from Wisconsin, Republican Alexander Wiley has maintained an aloof attitude toward Joe McCarthy. When the U.S. Senate was voting to censure Wisconsin's junior Senator, the senior Senator was handily attending a conference in South America. Some of McCarthy's powerful Wisconsin friends who did not care for Wiley's attitude let it be known that they might try to beat him in the 1956 primary. Last week, the primary 18 months away, Wiley unexpectedly took a place at the speakers' table at the 50th anniversary dinner of the Knights of Columbus of Kenosha...
...help American imperialism and its running dogs to enslave the peoples of their world or their own people. There is no third path. If somebody thinks a nation can achieve revolutionary victory alone without unity and assistance from the forces of world revolution, [or] after its victorious revolution stay aloof from the animosity between World Revolution and counterrevolutionaries, then he is against proletarian Internationalism and has fallen into the mire of Nationalism...
Bullets & Buckshot. One of the bitterest enemies of the hunters and their dogs is the Garlington family, a tough, aloof clan of ranchers who have prospered as breeders of Brahman cattle. Citizens with missing hounds look for them around the Garlingtons' 3,000-acre ranch; usually, they are shown the gate at gunpoint. "If you was to dig up their land," says a local woman, "you'd find dog bones every five feet...