Word: aplomb
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Constant Energy. By the time the tour was finished, the girls had handled integrated tea party or segregated breakfast with equal aplomb. They had spoken their piece for people who distrusted Catholics ("The Catholic Church," said Eunice, "does not influence Jack in any way except a religious way"), people who were worried about the oil-depletion allowance, who resented Lyndon Johnson's second place on the ticket. Their energy was a source of constant consternation to everyone who tried to keep up with them. They had hardly arrived at the L.B.J. Ranch for a rest before the Kennedy girls...
...commercial television, adored by the country's boisterous bubble-gum set and avidly sought by manufacturers of candy, soda pop, cereal and children's medicines. Since then Janette, now 4, has piled up enough pesos to buy a small farm, where she languishes weekends with the aplomb of a Hollywood starlet, tending her flocks of ducks and chickens and her pet pig. Janette's father, Agustin Arceo, a salesman of auto lubricants, objects to all this, but is solidly outnumbered by the rest of the' family (Luis, now 13, has also received his announcer...
...mailboxes across the country last week, the letter that brought whoops or wails finally arrived. It came from one of the East's eight Ivy League men's colleges or the Seven Sisters women's colleges. Some kids took it with aplomb. When Brian Silver, 17, slammed into the house from Denver's East High School, his mother handed him two letters. He opened them coolly and said: "I've been accepted by Yale and Harvard. I think I'll go to Harvard." His calm was rare. On Long Island, N.Y., Ciba Ruth Vaughan...
...lost the job twice before, banjo-thwanging Charlie Grimm, 61, accepted with casual aplomb the announcement that he had again been fired as manager of the Chicago Cubs, a team he had led to three pennants in 14 seasons, which lost eleven of its first 16 games this year. Jolly Cholly's successor: Lou Boudreau, now a double-chinned 42, the old shortstop who was just 31 when he managed the Cleveland Indians to the 1948 pennant, later was canned himself by Cleveland, Boston and Kansas City...
After months of waiting. Disk Jockey Dick Clark-who at 30 is the U.S.'s oldest teen-ager-last week finally was up to his sunny smile in the payola hearings. Standing on the burning deck with aplomb, he assured the House Special Subcommittee on Legislative Oversight that he believed in his heart that he had never taken payola. "But you got an awful lot of royola," snapped Republican Steven B. Derounian, of New York's Nassau County, who was the clear winner of the session's Most Valuable Phrasemaker trophy...