Word: aloofness
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...Roman Catholic Church, traditionally circumspect in the matter of miracles, had for weeks remained aloof while the legend of Pierrette Regimbal grew & grew (TIME, Oct. 1). The legend said that 13-year-old Pierrette had been visited by St. Francis of Assisi, could work miraculous cures.* The Church noted that thousands of ailing pilgrims were visiting Pierrette's homemade grotto in predominantly Catholic Quebec, and that hundreds of others were writing to beg shipments of water from Pierrette's well...
Song Chin Woo, a fiftyish editor with a long record in the secret nationalist movement, is remaining aloof from parties while things jell. Cho Mansik, called the Gandhi of Korea, is a Christian church elder whom the Russians reportedly brought out of retirement to head the municipal government of industrial Pyengyang. As for the long-exiled government at Chung king, some Koreans would welcome it as a ready-made instrument for wielding political power. More likely, its members will return as private individuals...
Labor had nicknamed aloof, reserved A. P. Sloan "the undertaker." Some of his associates call him "Silent Sloan." But not to his face; they always address him as "Mr." His immense wealth ($43,000,000 in G.M. stock alone) has somehow connected him in the public mind with Wall Street financiers...
...factional troubles. In 1942 they united again, under the Presidency of earnest, greying Kim Koo, who had taken refuge in Chungking, and won financial support and de facto recognition from Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek. The new coalition of exiles did not include the 300,000 Koreans in Siberia. They remained aloof and inaccessible. At least 30,000 of them were said to be organized in a Red Army unit. They were apparently under the leadership of two veteran Korean leftists, Park Hoon...
Died. Sir Ronald Lindsay, 68, moose-tall (6 ft. 3 in.) aloof British Ambassador to the U.S. (1930-1939); of coronary thrombosis; in Bournemouth, England. Forced to call his first press conference when a frustrated U.S. press demanded more news about the impending 1939 visit of the King & Queen, Sir Ronald patiently bore flashbulbs and impertinent questions, disarmed newsmen by saying, "I don't pretend to enjoy this, but shan't we have another...