Word: demeanors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Western businessmen trying to set up subsidiaries in Japan are sometimes reminded of the welcome that Commodore Perry got there in 1853. "Our policy," whispered one wary Japanese at the time, "shall be to evade any definite answer to their requests, while at the same time maintaining a peaceful demeanor." For years, the U.S. and other nations have urged Japan to relax restrictions on foreign investments; for years, the Japanese demurred on grounds that their struggling industries would fall to outside control...
...President was hardly his usual loquacious self-at times his nonanswers were all but inaudible-the probable reason was his faith in Johnsonian axiom No. 1, which holds that if a little is good, more is better and most is best. In recent weeks, his public demeanor has been markedly subdued, and the low-posture ploy has apparently had results. For the first time since October, according to a Harris poll released last week, Johnson's popularity rating stands an even 50%-50% with Michigan's Governor George Romney, who only last March led the President...
...voters who provided Collins with the mayoralty nomination in 1959, and 1963 are primarily lace curtain or wall-to-wall Irish, and they seek candidates whose conduct and demeanor flatter their own image. Should Collins be unwilling to run again they will probably give the nomination to someone else who closely fits their stereotype, like former Presidential Assistant Kenneth P. O. Donnell...
...nation's constitutional future. Her campaign symbol was a picture of a mother with her child in arms, the mother representing the nation and the child its people, and it helped Mme. Xa come in as the Assembly's third highest vote getter. So did her calculated demeanor. "A woman must al ways be more careful than a man because she is being judged closer than he is," she explains. 'That doesn't mean you can't be Machiavellian. But be modest. They expect...
...Whampoa, he changed his name from Yu-Yung (Fostering Demeanor) to Piao (Tiger Cat). With that, he sprang into the field, and by the late 1920s, he was a regimental commander for the puritanical Communist General Chu Teh, whose political officer was a plump, moonfaced youngster named Chen Yi, now Peking's Foreign Minister. Many of Chu's 40,000 troops were armed with bows and arrows, and his artillery consisted of hollow logs loaded with rocks and scrap metal. The troopers sang Chinese versions of Dixie and raided Nationalist camps on feast days in order...