Word: dapper
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Panmunjom, North Korea's dapper, tireless Lieut. General Nam II returned to the truce table with a "grave warning." The Communist armies, he cried, "decidedly cannot sit by while seeing their capTured fellow combatants being slaughtered by your side at will" (see below). This sounded uncomfortably like the warnings that emanated from Red China on the eve of her massive intervention in the autumn...
...blanket over a ten-foot wall and slid down to freedom. A villager spotted his exit and gave chase, but John eluded him. No siren alerted the village to the escape: the Ministry of Health does not believe in such devices. Soon afterward the lunatic, clad in a dapper pinstripe, was happily rubbing elbows with window shoppers in the village of Crowthorne. "It's a lovely afternoon, isn't it?" he said politely to one of them...
Never before had one man welcomed so many to a housewarming. Showing off the renovated White House to a TV audience of some ten million, President Harry Truman was dapper and chipper in a light blue double-breasted suit. He also appeared more at ease than the three network announcers (CBS's Walter Cronkite, ABC's Bryson Rash, NBC's Frank Bourg-holtzer) who took turns accompanying him on his rounds...
...lethal-looking, pulled to a screeching halt before the Lebanese presidential palace in Beirut. A Lebanon honor guard snapped to attention and a military band blared forth the Syrian national anthem. Security men swarmed about the car. Then, from behind the bulletproof glass of the car door stepped a dapper little man with the look of a morose mouse...
...second day of the trial, Slater's counsel, plainly beyond his depth in the occult seas, quit the case and the dapper vaudevillian took over his own defense. Testifying for himself, he said he had hypnotized 25,000 people, and earned up to $15,000 a week doing it, without ever having had such a complaint before. Then, as his own lawyer, he asked Dr. Van Pelt: Is it not true that an anxiety neurosis such as Diana's could have come from an unhappy love affair? It could be, began Van Pelt, but at that point Justice...