Word: aplomb
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...aplomb is born of experience and discipline. "At first I worried about everything I said, how I looked, was I dressed just right. But you cannot do that and be effective, so I learned from Jimmy that you just relax and do the best...
...hand to a friend, she is airborne: a backflip, landing on the sliver of a bar with a thunk so solid it reverberates; up, backward again, a second blind flip, and a landing. No 747 ever set itself down on a two-mile runway with more assurance or aplomb. She leaps, twists, spins, and the 18,000 people in Montreal's Forum realize that they are witnessing an exhibition of individual achievement that is truly Olympian. The judges agree. Their verdict on Nadia Comaneci, 14, of Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej, Rumania: she is perfect...
...musicians put down their instruments in awe. Raquel's hot-pink halter top had come fluttering down, thus revealing, for the first time on stage or screen, the superstructure that made her famous. La Welch quickly pulled herself and her costume back together, ad-libbing with admirable aplomb: "Well, at least I didn't let myself down...
...mobile Citizen's Band radio, First Lady Betty Ford went to Texas last week on a campaign trip for Husband Jerry. "You got First Mama. There's a lot of Smokeys on my front door," said Betty, radioing from her Secret Service car with all the aplomb of a veteran trucker. (Translation: "This is the First Lady. I see plenty of policemen in front of me.") Though she probably hopes to pick up a few votes for her husband from the 11 to 12 million CB operators in the U.S., Betty has displeased at least one listener with...
Israel, meanwhile, was acting with equivalent aplomb. Even though Jerusalem did not sign the agreement until last week, the government had earlier decided to honor a timetable drawn up as though it had. Thus the Mobil engineers were welcomed heartily when they first arrived at Ras Sudr under U.N. escort, a day before the signing ceremony. An Israeli colonel in charge of the pullback from the fields told TIME Correspondent Marlin Levin: "We will leave the oilfields to the Egyptians just as we found them. We have even cleaned up the mosque for them...