Word: demeanor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...brilliant greenish-white light, the plumes of clean-burning jet flame. And in the Starlite Motel, which rents 70 of its 87 units to missilemen from Convair, North American Aviation, Bell Telephone Laboratories, A.C. Spark Plug, the practiced observer at after-the-shoot cocktail parties can tell from the demeanor of his hosts how the shoot has gone. Smiles among the Convair group might mean a promising static-test day for the Atlas intercontinental ballistic missile, frowns among the North American missile monkeys might show a bad day for the Navaho intercontinental air-breather...
...meet, the London Times turned its normally jaundiced eye upon the affair and proclaimed, "The calm preceding a battle marked the eve of the international varsity struggle." Of the visiting team, it said, "Their gentlemanly demeanor, good looks, and high spirits have been the subject of admiring comment. They have never been noisy nor indulged in horse play...
...eyes were even swinging over to darkest Africa, where the old British colonial Gold Coast begat the new nation of Ghana to the blare of a New Orleans jazz band and appropriate quotations and paraphrases of Burke, e.g., "We are on a conspicuous stage, and the world marks our demeanor...
...first public reckoning of the economic cost of Eden's Suez policy hit Parliament like a splash of cold water, thrown by Chancellor of the Exchequer Harold Macmillan, whose sober demeanor seemed to say: in aqua frigida veritas. The jeers and roars that had greeted Selwyn Lloyd gave way to somber attentiveness when Macmillan gravely declared: "The customary monthly announcement on the gold and dollar reserves is being issued to the press today ... It shows a fall of $279 million in the reserves...
Stevenson at Yale Sir: I wonder if you can identify the elderly lady and gentleman who appear in the photograph depicting Yale students heckling Stevenson [Oct. 15]? The contrast between the couple's mature demeanor and the yakking, jackal-hyena-like appearance of the Yale students is astounding...