Word: debonair
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...customary gamesmanship. At the finish. Mackenzie let Kocerka pull close before spurting hard to leave the Pole completely exhausted. He won by half a length and became the first man in the 20th century to take the Diamond Sculls four straight times. "It was a nice little dabble." said debonair Sculler Mackenzie. "But I was just playing...
Dear Tod, we like your savoir-faire Direct and deft and debonair. No pitch, no plaques, no benefits, No Ladies' Aid, no worker kits. Half-Nelson tactics aren't your dish You twist your ring and state your wish. The genie hears: Voila, a champ. The oil doth pour from Nelson's lamp...
...York World-Telegram and Sun exposé (TIME, March 7), the grand jury investigation disrobed seasoned ghosts. Among them: Morris Needleman, 52, assistant principal of a Brooklyn elementary school, and Joseph Lasky, 72, who advertised himself as a former instructor at New York University. Slickest of all: debonair Freelance Writer James Butterly, who is charged with taking an exam in adolescent psychology for a dullard student at Columbia's Teachers College. Though Butterly is a grey-haired ghost of 54 and his client was 23, officials suspected nothing...
...ambitious young cadet in time became the debonair Right Honorable Louis Francis Albert Victor Nicholas, first Earl Mountbatten of Burma, K.G., P.C., G.C.B., G.C.S.I., G.C.I.E.. G.C.V.O., K.C.B., D.S.O. He was a destroyer flotilla skipper in the Mediterranean, later Britain's wartime South East Asia commander, and then Viceroy of India during India's difficult transition to independence. At last, after achieving, like his father before him, the rank of First Sea Lord, he became Britain's first Chief of the Defense Staff...
...airport, it was the Prime Minister who suavely climbed into the limousine to share Ike's first triumphal tour of London. And on television with his famous guest, Macmillan took advantage of the fact that Ike could do little other than nod politely as the Prime Minister dropped debonair references to his own visit with Khrushchev, British distaste for U.S. tariffs on woolen goods and a clutch of other matters likely to convince British voters that good old Harold was the man to support. In the Evening Standard next day, Randolph Churchill sourly commented: "It was a fascinating experience...