Word: aloofness
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While he remained aloof from positive predictions as to what actions the new Congress will take, Herter declared that he was sure of at least one point; "you can look for an over-all domestic cleanup, which will result in a decisive and progressive policy...
...American student stands in a peculiarly aloof position. He has little contact with his fellow students on American campuses and he has little contact with students in Europe. His horizons are drawn on narrow lines, both at home and abroad. With others, the intellectual exchange is slight and cooperative action negligible...
...Evening Standard ran a bitter cartoon by David Low showing an aloof U.S. ploughing "the lonely furrow" straight across Orr's carefully cultivated world food field. And a Daily Mirror artist savagely crucified an agonized male figure labeled "World Hunger" on two skyscrapers marked "Wall Street," captioned his cartoon: "I thirst . . . and they filled a sponge with vinegar and put it to His mouth...
...years Traubel and Flagstad divided most of the leading Wagnerian roles. In Die Walküre, Traubel sang a dozen Sieglindes to Flagstad's Brünnhildes. The usually aloof Flagstad finally said to Traubel: "I think it is now time we turn this around and I sing Sieglinde and you sing Brünnhilde." The change never came off. Shortly afterwards Flagstad returned to German-occupied Norway...
...Aloof Charles de Gaulle could claim at least a half victory. The vote showed that he could not buck the coalition, but he had emerged the largest single influence in France, larger than any one party. Frenchmen wondered if De Gaulle would accept (if offered) a presidency which, as set up in the new constitution, he considered weak and ineffectual...