Word: aura
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...countrymen, whichever side they take, ex-Ambassador Hayter declared: "It is with a kind of nausea that one reverts to this disagreeable affair." It is plain that the British, who are prone to cherish the memories of their greatest defeats, have not yet found in Suez the aura of heroism and sacrifice that leads them to take pride in Gallipoli and Dunkirk...
Pediatricians should be the happiest of specialists, for as they say. "We are suffering from growing pains." Their business is booming, and because they treat the whole child (thus slopping all over the territory of most other specialists), they take on much of the aura of the oldfashioned family doctor. But even they complain: they would like to get their patients away from the obstetrician more promptly after birth, and some want to edge into consultation on the mother's condition before delivery...
...There are exceptions, of course, and he falls in love with a fine woman who refuses to believe that her soldier husband, missing in World War II, will not one day return. It is her daughter, one of Soldner's students, whose nightmarish experiences give the book an aura of suspense that is more effective than its theme of corruption-by-money. The bearer of horror is a mentally unbalanced youth determined to have the young girl. His pursuit gives the novel a sense of imminent disaster and a switch ending more appropriate to a mystery than a thesis...
...Washington was the first to discover, obscurity is impossible for an ex-President. Though Washington settled back easily into his planter's life, visitors thought nothing of inviting themselves to dinner, and Mount Vernon's twelve bedrooms were rarely empty. Not even death removed the aura of Washington's august presence. Today, 160 years after he died, his Mount Vernon draws more than 1,000,000 visitors a year...
...reach such a warm rapport with the Southern conservative leaders of the Senate that he is ranked as one of the best-liked members of that exclusive club. His 8½-hour talkathon with Russia's Nikita Khrushchev in December 1958 gave him an internationalist's aura and propelled him into a commanding position in front of the Democratic liberals...