Word: demeanors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...journalist since she was 17, Rippon joined the network as a reporter in 1973 and worked in Belfast, Rome and London. Along the way she developed the icy stare and prim demeanor of a schoolmarm, plus the flawless, classless diction of-well, a BBC announcer. "All weightiness and reliability," says a satisfied Todd of his Angela and her new colleagues. Nor is he the only one impressed with Rippon: she recently received the Radio Industries Club's Newscaster of the Year award...
...first full-time chairman and chief executive under a sweeping reorganization that abolished the old board of governors. It was replaced with 21 directors-ten elected from the brokerage community, ten from the business community at large, plus the chairman. Directors thought that Needham's commanding demeanor and SEC background would help Wall Street in coping with change...
...characteristic feisty non-chalance that made him a terror at match-play. One analyst of Hagen's game writes that it was his ability to project his personality during the course of a round that so totally nonplussed his opponents: "His demeanor towards his opponents, though entirely correct, had yet a certain suppressed truculence; he exhibited so supreme a confidence that they could not get it out of their minds and could not live against...
...What a person looks like--I mean whether he fits the description of a known criminal, proximity to the scene of a crime, demeanor, time and place" plus "police sense" enter into a policeman's assessment of a trespasser's intentions, Kahn said...
...room, exhibitionists beneath the sensual pommeling of a bass guitar. This is a wonder of the Harvard party--the trans-mogrifications that straight-laced students undergo on the dance floor; one of the only real pleasures of Harvard parties is finding yourself dancing ferociously with someone whose usually upright demeanor only prompts idle fantasy. The room was--except for the intervals when 72 churning legs had been disappointed by burntout equipment (and the hosts had scrambled into the boiler room to bring back the music)--a Bacchanalian sink...