Word: aplomb
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...before he ventured to take unto himself a wife, Abigail Smith, the daughter of a Weymouth preacher. She was a lively girl of great charm and moral force who bore John's testy temper and four children (including a future President, John Quincy) with all wifely aplomb...
With the air of a man walking tiptoe among political eggs (he did it with the aplomb of a ballerina), he appeared before a Senate appropriations subcommittee to explain the headlines he made the week before when he had said that the Administration was reducing the country's military strength beyond the point of safety...
...right one painted on at once." To one of his aides he whispered hoarsely: "Be sure to get the name of that painter in California." A Spanish airport worker grabbed paint and brush and did a quick patchup job that made everybody breathe easier. Still struggling to regain his aplomb later in the day, Visitor McCormick made a little speech in which he referred to Franco as "the greatest European general of our times...