Word: demeanors
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Trooper in Skirmishes. Thanks largely to his passion for unadorned fact, to his careful homework (he likes to field questions without having to whisper to aides for an answer), and to his polite and unruffled demeanor, Dillon proved to be one of Ike's most valuable troopers in skirmishes with Capitol Hill. He is not a man to make memorable quotes, but accomplishes more by not drawing attention to himself. One time he did not entirely escape the limelight was during the U-2 spy case last spring. Christian Herter was at a NATO foreign ministers' meeting...
...Father of His Country look.'' After making three sketches, the two shown here and the third that became the cover portrait, Dobell sat on a settee for three more hours, as Karnow's interview went on, smoking and making mental notes of Diem's demeanor...
...passed on to his publisher. "Personally," wrote Walt, "the author of Leaves of Grass is in no sense whatever the 'rough,' 'eccentric,' 'vagabond' or queer person that the commentators persist in making him . . . always bodily sweet & fresh, dressed plainly & cleanly, a gait & demeanor of antique simplicity ... an American Personality, & real Democratic Presence, that not only the best old Hindu, Greek and Roman worthies would at once have responded to, but which the most cultured European would likewise...
...breast of the Times's James Reston lurked the hope that the U.S. President might learn a trick or two in Paris, notably the trick of reserve. Reston quoted a De Gaullism on the subject: "There can be no prestige without mystery. In the designs, the demeanor and the mental operations of a leader, there must always be a 'something' which others cannot altogether fathom." Reston's unstated conclusion: Kennedy is altogether too fathomable...
...gropes carefully for words, as much from lack of confidence in his English as from concern to see that he is understood. The underground movement which he heads has been responsible for nation-wide destruction in Cuba in the last eleven months, but from his quiet and pacific demeanor little of this could be inferred...