Word: aplomb
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bulky, and he has a blunt, peasant face. Among Russians he has a crude way of addressing all those below him in rank with the unceremonious and familiar "thou." Said a Russian who knew him during his days in the Moscow Soviet: "He exudes self-confidence and aplomb. He knows very well how to annoy people with explanations of their party tasks." Was he talking with Malenkov now about his failed party tasks? Was he using the familiar "thou...
...suit the convenience of such department stores as Macy's, Bamberger's and J. L. Hudson's. The famed Macy parade in Manhattan was taken over for TV by NBC's Home program, and the usually competent Arlene Francis seemed to lose all her accustomed aplomb out in the autumn air. Arlene spent most of her time clucking maternally at some refugee children, miscalling the floats (she shocked uncounted millions of children by repeatedly identifying Mighty Mouse as Mickey Mouse) and caroling desperately to Commentator Hugh Downs: "Hugh! What have you got up there...
...Charles Brook-with a beard remarkably resembling Sigmund Freud's -commuted for weeks between his Har ley Street office and the royal stables outside Newmarket. A psychotherapist who began his professional career as a corporation lawyer, Brook would stride past the sneering unbelievers of shed row with magnificent aplomb and go directly to Landau's stall. There, standing close to his patient's side, he would place his left hand on the colt's withers, his right hand on the smooth, black belly. For 20 minutes, horse and horse doctor would meditate in silent communion...
...running in a suburban Boston district-and he certainly has the proper credentials: he is a onetime Harvard football captain; he was Senator John Kennedy's college roommate; he has a lovely wife, former movie actress Phyllis Brooks, who ladles out pink, nonalcoholic punch with complete grace and aplomb...
...role of Mosca, the amanuensis of immorality, Jouvet is a cunning rascal. He argues an insanely jealous husband into offering his wife to Volpone in token of friendship with the considered aplomb of a conservative stock broker...