Word: aplomb
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Bayou Bombast. Taylor, retaining his aplomb, betrayed the faintest sign of unease only when Louisiana Democrat Russell Long, the committee's leading supporter of the war, took the floor. After chiding Chairman Fulbright for "making speeches while the witness is answering," Long regaled the committee with pure bayou bombast. "Do you think we are the international bad guy or the international good guy?" he asked. Confronted with this particular blend of jingoism and ingenuousness, the sophisticated Taylor looked as if he wanted to hide. "I hope we are the international good guys," he said with a weak smile...
...Neuman, Mad magazine's trademark moron. The actors do versatile impersonations of the specialized zany-the hi-fi nut, the folksong nut, the technician nut whose means totally dwarf his ends. One of the funniest skits in the show features a TV sportscaster team that, with superb professional aplomb, misses the kickoff, the touchdown play, and even the score of a championship game, while cutting to "our man on the field," interviewing the coach, and breathlessly spieling, World Almanac-slye: "This is only the third time in a Hawk-Rocket game that a safety man of Polish extraction...
...none of this prepared Amanda for the shock. She was just out of bed and barely into her morning paper in her Manhattan apartment at the Dakota (same floor as Jason Robards and Lauren Bacall) when she spotted her name in boldface. Down dropped her paper and her aplomb...
...cham pion. He rides like Lochinvar, golfs near par on any course, and betweentimes collects rare books and Oriental art. On his experimental farm outside the ancient capital of Kabul, he raises mutant grapes, outsize apricots, and dairy cattle that can withstand the rigors of Afghan altitude with milky aplomb. But as one of his courtiers puts it, "the King has a conscience." Accordingly, in the past two years, Zahir Shah has mastered a new art: politics. For Afghanistan, that is the kingliest accomplishment...
...deny that." She refuses to say, or perhaps doesn't know, just where the idea came from. But the books were popular from their first appearance in 1934. Their author has since been able to travel and encounter people all over the world, with almost as much speed and aplomb as her heroine...