Word: demeanors
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...announcement was a stunner. Wearing a conservative gray suit that matched his habitual gray demeanor, Prime Minister John Major strode across the lawn of the rose garden behind 10 Downing Street and announced to a hastily assembled press conference that enough was enough. He had become weary, he declared, of "a small minority" that was disrupting his Conservative Party and undermining his position. With the bright summer sunshine streaming over his shoulder, Major threw down the gauntlet. Rather than wait until November for a possible challenge to his leadership--and endure months of politically damaging backbiting in between...
Feaster, whose quiet off-court demeanor stands in sharp contrast to her on-court intensity, immediately stepped in as a starter and made enormous contributions...
...slawyer, James Pollock, writes that the Decemberminutes "bring disrepute upon the name, reputationand standing of Professor Witzel both as a teacherand as an administrator. Accordingly, they fallinto the category of libel....The possibility ofmalice on your part is not to be ruled out giventhe unnecessarily hostile, unprofessional andnon-collegial demeanor you have shown in any faceto face dealings with Professor Witzel and thefact that your minutes omitted material presentedat the meeting, the inclusion of which would havelent balance to the record...
Dean Jewett's sense of personal fairness and good counsel, his complete devotion and hard work, his unassuming and affable demeanor and his intelligence and insight--described by an old schoolmate of his as that of a "genius"--have inspired and guided an entire era of Harvard College students and faculty...
...seemed unassuming and kind, she added. Onlyabout 5 feet tall, Ho was "very slight, [and] inher demeanor very Asian, in the sense of [being]very retiring, very demure," the sophomore said...