Word: aplomb
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Ambassador to the United Nations Adlai E. Stevenson won a couple of diverse honors last week, accepted both with cool aplomb. Named "National Father of the Year" by the National Father's Day Committee, he spoke out in defense of that "butt of the comic strips" and "boob of the radio and TV serials," the American father. Said Adlai, father of three and grandfather of three: "Life with father seems to have degenerated into a continuous sequence of disrespect, or tolerance at best . . . Even though we don't want him to be the autocrat of the breakfast table...
...visitors by slaughtering 400 Jews. Eichmann seemed unbothered, but Himmler nearly fainted. He even tried to save one young Jew because he was blond and seemed Aryan, but Himmler's shouts were drowned in the rattle of ma chine guns. Later, Himmler was to show more aplomb at massacres, but now he ordered a search for a more "humane method...
Lewis is currently engaged in "explaining" Operation Abolition to college groups in this area. Last night, he handled a sometimes hostile crowd with considerable aplomb, and produced impressive domumentation for some of his claims...
...confided that they had orders to clear just enough parking space for President Kennedy, and for the Secret Service men who would stand guard while the President and First Lady had dinner that night with the Evanses. That evening, with the secret out, the Kennedys made their way with aplomb through a gathering of newsmen waiting outside...
Though the Administration bill may run into rough congressional waters (a similar pair of bills died in a House-Senate conference last August), many businessmen regard Kennedy's proposals with aplomb. Says Critic Brozen: "Without Government stimulus and with normal increases in productivity, -he minimum-wage group would be making $1.25 within four years, anyway." Even in the South, traditional target for minimum-wage legislation and now hard hit by slumps in both the textile and pulpwood industries, those who are paying above the minimum would like to see competitors forced to do the same...