Word: aplomb
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fighters are not responding to a challenge, and in fact may not even know each other. The Mensur also differs in the extensive safeguards aimed at preventing any killing. Nobody wins, nobody loses. The object is only to subdue den inner en Schweinehnnd (cowardice) by taking a slash with aplomb. Habitual flinchers are booted out of the fraternity. ''This is the way an elite has to be formed." explains one student at the University of Munich. He sees fraternities as a splendid antidote to the rootless "academic proletariat" at West German universities, "those unaffiliated students who behave like...
...Elfinbrook Simon is not one to put on the dog. When Simon was singled out as the year's best. Owner Barbara Worcester burst into tears of joy and relief. As for Simon, he padded over to the "Best in Show" sign and, with an air of aplomb that brought cheers from 10,000 spectators, found relief of a different sort...
...With Aplomb. Thomson's buy was a bargain. It gave him control of Illustrated Newspapers Ltd.-half a dozen successful and prestigious magazines, among them the glossy Tatler (circ. 60,000), the Sphere (50,000) and the 119-year-old Illustrated London News (79,000)-and the deal was conducted with the usual Thomson aplomb. As he prowled about Britain looking for properties to buy, Thomson crossed the path of the group's proprietor, Sir John Reeves Ellerman, 51, a recluse so unsociable that he has been photographed only three times in 30 years. An indefatigable voyager...
With the same sneering aplomb, Gallo last week went on trial in Manhattan on charges of trying to muscle in on a Brooklyn restaurant owned by one Theodore Moss. Not only did Gallo try to sell him $48,000 worth of stolen liquor, testified Moss, but he had demanded a cut of the business. As a persuader, said a detective, Gallo had threatened: "I'll put you in the hospital for a couple of months...
...only to spiral into joy when her brother reveals he is alive in the famed recognition scene. Up to this point, Electra has been a kind of female Hamlet except that her griefs lie all without. After this point, she and Orestes dispatch Clytemnestra and Aegisthus with all the aplomb of Chicago gangsters...