Word: aura
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Konrad Adenauer sat in the aura of his prestige in Secretary Dulles' dining room in Washington, straight-backed and spare his weathered mask of a face transformed by a wintry smile. "Now that Sir Winston Churchill is no longer active," said Dulles as he proposed a glowing toast, "you are the dean of the Western world." Three days later the old man sat grave-faced amid a rowdy powwow of the Oneida Indians in the student union of Wisconsin's Marquette University. "We like you to a Moses leading your people out of the wilderness," the Oneida chief...
...mystery and marvel of the 2,000-year-old scrolls found nine years ago in caves near the ruins of a religious community on the Dead Sea, two scrolls shone with a special aura. For these, instead of leather or parchment, were of copper-a precious metal in those ancient times, betokening a message of highest value. Oxidized by time, the copper scrolls stubbornly withheld their secret while scientists puttered and pondered over the problem of unrolling them without crumbling them to powder...
Schlesinger will vigorously argue political questions but his friends claim that he seldom discusses his career or his personal life. One colleague, a professor of literature who finds in Schlesinger "a deep humility at heart," probably uncovered the greatest source of the aura of arrogance around Schlesinger when he observed, "Arthur is more informed in my field than...
...theatrical has-beens and wouldbes of Rome's fleabag Hotel Imperatore, the Countess Sanziani exudes the imposing aura of a famed once-was. For La Sanziani. as Carmela soon learns, was once a legendary courtesan, mistress of a d'Annunzio-like poet, playmate of a Dutch multimillionaire, brief bedfellow of the Kaiser and of many another great or near great. Carmela is too young to sense it, but the poignancy of the countess is that in her rage to relive these past love affairs, she is dueling with her last and most pressing suitor-death...
...award called a "Bosco" was given to June Allyson, "who, with eternally girlish homeiness, an aura of fresh-baked, deep-dish apple pie like Mother used to make, and an endless supply of tears, bravely but vainly attempts to resist the onslaught of the advancing years...