Word: demeanor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have been Homer's eyes. I suggested Mephistopheles. They say--with some salt to be sure--that I pinched Beatrice and Dante merely followed her flight to comfort. I am the Muse, the Artist, or if you will, the Human Venture. You may think my costume outlandish and my demeanor strange; but that is your fault, not mine. I have endured...
...when the President met the press last week for the first time in eleven weeks, his performance was something of a letdown. He knew his subjects, and his demeanor and clarity of character gave strength to the reasonableness of his answers-but this reasonableness, laid down in cold print, often sounded like weakness and an open invitation to his opponents to walk all over Dwight Eisenhower and his programs...
...bloody rude." He once interrupted a long-winded scientist in the midst of a long lecture, to remark: "That's all very well, but you still haven't found out what makes my bath water gurgle." On another occasion, he snapped at an admiral whose demeanor indicated he had drunk his lunch: "Well, Admiral, what do you think-that is, if you are still capable of thinking...
...spite of such a distinctly non-professional demeanor, or partly, perhaps, because of it, Turner is held in high esteem as a teacher...
...knowing (nor had Congress) because of the unknowing demeanor of the U.S.'s defense budgeteers. "While the President was concentrating on the Suez business, shoring up the world alliance and all that," said another spokesman in the know, "we plumb forgot about our own bureaucrats." And when military officers around the Pentagon said, calmly last week that they could "live with" the new budget, nobody knew whether they were being frank or just polite...