Word: aloofness
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Neighbors said that a man named Domingo Massolo had lived there. He was said to be a captain in the veterinary corps, a quiet, aloof fellow of about 40, with a wife and three children. The reporter found the Massolos' former maid. The last morning she visited the house she had found a note on the door telling her she was no longer needed. She went in anyway, noticed blood spots on the carpet and on a mirror, then hastily left...
...lucidity are admired by the State Department press corps, but Congressmen do not warm to his cultivated manner, his balanced phrases, his seemingly studied elegance. The Congressmen could probably accept all of that if they were not put off by what they regard as his aloof manner. In his appearances before Congress, he is gracious, urbane and polite-perhaps over-polite. But his explanations of foreign programs often carry a trace of faint weariness that explanations should be needed. Worse, even staunch Democrats were dismayed by his espousal of Alger Hiss; and his explanation of what he regarded...
Policy of Containment. In Correspondent Reston's book, the chief of police and chief withholder of information is Secretary of State Dean Acheson. Said Reston: "[His] attitude toward the reporters and his strategy ... is not unlike his attitude and strategy toward the Russians ... An aloof policy of containment . . . [He thinks] that the executive branch ... must have the right of uninterrupted private discussion and negotiation . . . even if it's about such things as the hydrogen bomb . . . While [Acheson] does not dislike reporters personally, he apparently thinks they are presumptuous, superficial, often selfish and indifferent to the public interest, irresponsible...
...Waties Waring and his Yankee wife. First, the judge's lifelong friends in Charleston's proud and starchy society had cut him cold for divorcing one of their own to marry a twice-divorced woman from Connecticut. Then the rest of white Charleston had drawn itself aloof when he ruled that Negroes were entitled to vote in South Carolina's primary elections (TIME, Aug. 23, 1948). Over the months there were loud whispers that the Warings were entertaining Negroes. But nobody was prepared for what Mrs. Waring had to say last week...
Winner Menzies, once an aloof personality with a tendency to talk down to his audiences, showed a new character in the Liberal-Country Party campaign. He mingled with audiences, took heckling good-naturedly, responded genially to hails of "Bob" from the crowd. He banged away at a single theme with crusading fervor: "We've come round again to a crucial decision. A vote for Labor means a vote for the ultimate bereavement of freedom." Labor retorted, "Vote for Bob and lose your job!" The Liberals countered with a crack at socialistic regimentation: "Vote for Bob and choose your...