Word: aloofness
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...carrier, two cruisers and a flotilla of destroyers into the vicinity, protested to Spain, and asked the U.S. to please ask Franco to call off his Moroccans. The U.S., with millions invested in French Moroccan air-bases and ready to spend $200 million more on bases in Spain, kept aloof...
...tradition set by Bovard, P-D staffers, whose salaries are as high as any newspaper in the U.S., keep aloof from outside organizations, rarely accept invitations to pressagents' parties, return gifts that are sent to them, pay their way wherever they go. The PD, which in 1951 bought the ailing Star-Times (circ. 179,803) and now is the only evening paper in St. Louis, seldom loses a staffer to any other newspaper. When the flow of news is heavy the news department rules, decides how much space it will need, leaves the rest...
Part of this barrier can be overcome by undergraduate support. Since the theatre is primarily a project designed to augment extra-curricular activity in the College, the student body should not remain aloof from the campaign. Undergraduates particularly interested in a theatre should form a committee to work on student fund drivers with Dean Bundy and John Mason Brown, leaders of the project...
...Griswold Aloof...
While only pledges are actually expected to scrub, public opinion would consider anyone who stood noticeably aloof from participation as something of an odd bird, and one to be watched for further anti-social tendencies. Frederick R. Alvord, Secretary of the University and Colgate alumnus summed up the general attitude, "The student body might look askance at any student not in the extra-curricular life of the school...