Word: charmingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...part of Delegate Lodge's job. As in the U.S. Senate, most of the real persuading is done in private talks. More important than a flair for public speaking, the U.S.'s delegate to the U.N. must have a flair for private persuasion, whether through logic, browbeating, charm, force of personality, flattery, or any combination of these. Since he has to keep in mind not only tomorrow's vote but the possibly more important votes to be counted next week, next month, next year, he has to work incessantly at building up good will and avoiding hurt...
...John Lewis Piano (Atlantic). The leader of the Modern Jazz Quartet takes some standards (Little Girl Blue, It Never Entered My Mind) and some of his own compositions (Harlequin, Colombine) and strips them to the clean, cool bone. The spare treatments have a fragile charm all their own, but when heard in bulk they speak in an emotional monotone ultimately as wearying as a series of landscapes executed in whites and greys...
...charm of this structure for geneticists comes from its variability. Each step between the helices can be made of either pair of bases pointing in either direction. If the spirals should be pulled apart (the chemical bonds between bases are weak), each spiral would be left with the four bases arranged in any sequence. If arranged meaningfully along the spiral, the bases could carry information in a four-symbol code, much like digits on the magnetic tape of an electronic computer...
...York Herald before settling down in 1909 as a reporter for the World. There he soon became one of the best reporters in a Manhattan galaxy of byliners that included Irvin Cobb. Frank Ward O'Malley and Richard Harding Davis. Herbert Swope's unique asset: overwhelming personal charm. Said an envious New York Telegraph reporter: "He finds out who is the principal source of information, and proceeds to fascinate that person. He will not let the victim go until he has coughed up all he knows...
Citation: "A most upright and conscientious gentleman, one in whom, as the orator Cicero said of another, there appears the embodiment of culture, of gentle wit, of amiability and of charm." Harvard University Hans Bethe, physicist . Sc.D...