Word: demeanor
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...dropped off by his parents at their home to chat and sip hot chocolate while he waited for the bus. Just days before the incident at Westside Middle School, Jackie says he was on his best behavior, accompanying her to the hair salon and earning plaudits for his demeanor from the astonished stylists...
...answer isn't yet clear, but people who know Willey have told TIME that her calm demeanor masks a surprising volatility. She can be a difficult friend, they say, because one never knows when she may decide to end the friendship over some perceived slight. She is described as smart, funny and attractive, but also unpredictable. In an amended deposition, she testified that longtime Democratic activist Nathan Landow had discussed her story with her. Landow, who has raised some $600,000 for Clinton and Al Gore over the years, told TIME that "in no way did I ever attempt...
...bullets, and you can't dodge them all, but he came pretty close," she added. "It's so unjust for the system to say these six women are nothing and his character is everything." But after the verdicts, McKinney's civilian lawyer, Charles Gittins, praised his client's relaxed demeanor on the stand and noted that his accusers had "credibility problems." Denying Hoster's charge, for instance, McKinney testified that he had visited her hotel room not for sex but to fire her. Prosecutors pointed out that he had been wearing his gym shorts, but as in a civilian trial...
...struck immediately by my own and my fellow classmates' demeanor: our giggling, our initial inability to call "No!" without prodding, our hesitation. Why were we all being such girlie-girls? I was doubly struck at the relish with which we all, once goaded on by the instructors, pummeled and yelled and kicked out at imaginary groins as though we hadn't left a library carrel in weeks and were dying just to make noise and take up space...
Just then, Tazewell Shepard, the naval aide who was holding a telephone, called out, "Mr. President, Mr. President, Colonel on the line." Kennedy's whole demeanor changed. With a lilting, joyous tone, he shouted his greetings to Glenn. Then, after five or so minutes of congratulations and chitchat, he gave the phone back to Shepard, stalked back to me and resumed the attack...