Word: aloofness
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...single-minded and conspicuously undiplomatic champion of strategic bombing. The Army and Navy mortally fear that he would set himself against big plans for short-range air support for ground troops and carrier-borne aviation. Defense Secretary Robert Lovett, well aware of the argument in the Air Force, kept aloof from the row until it had reached a head, i.e., Finletter's formal recommendation of LeMay...
...word I'd heard many times before. Unlike Dixieland addicts, though, those who prefer bop seem to hold themselves intellectually aloof from the emotionally throbbing outpourings of the earlier jazz cults. This bespectacled friend was no different from the rest in this respect. I discovered this five days later when he called me on the phone...
...subservient legislature double the sales tax, up the cigarette tax to 8 a package, push the gasoline tax to 9 a gallon. Even Huey's son, U.S. Senator Russell Long, turned against Uncle Earl's machine in the primary, and remained aloof in the runoff, thereby dividing the dynasty against itself...
...first it seemed that Witness McGrath would try to remain aloof from the Caudle curdle. He carefully pointed out that U.S. Supreme Court Justice Robert H. Jackson, while Attorney General, had picked Caudle for U.S. attorney in the western district of North Carolina. And Supreme Court Justice Tom C. Clark, while Attorney General, had selected Caudle for Assistant Attorney General...
...inconvenient to move the Alps into someone's office, but this Alpine calendar provides a different scene from these picturesque mountains at every flick of the page. The scenes, in full color, portray the icy, aloof, majesty of the range with sharp clarity...