Word: demeanors
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...meet, the London Times turned its normally jaundiced eye upon the affair and proclaimed, "The calm preceding a battle marked the eve of the international varsity struggle." Of the visiting team, it said, "Their gentlemanly demeanor, good looks, and high spirits have been the subject of admiring comment. They have never been noisy nor indulged in horse play...
...eyes were even swinging over to darkest Africa, where the old British colonial Gold Coast begat the new nation of Ghana to the blare of a New Orleans jazz band and appropriate quotations and paraphrases of Burke, e.g., "We are on a conspicuous stage, and the world marks our demeanor...
...first public reckoning of the economic cost of Eden's Suez policy hit Parliament like a splash of cold water, thrown by Chancellor of the Exchequer Harold Macmillan, whose sober demeanor seemed to say: in aqua frigida veritas. The jeers and roars that had greeted Selwyn Lloyd gave way to somber attentiveness when Macmillan gravely declared: "The customary monthly announcement on the gold and dollar reserves is being issued to the press today ... It shows a fall of $279 million in the reserves...
Stevenson at Yale Sir: I wonder if you can identify the elderly lady and gentleman who appear in the photograph depicting Yale students heckling Stevenson [Oct. 15]? The contrast between the couple's mature demeanor and the yakking, jackal-hyena-like appearance of the Yale students is astounding...
...Somewhere in Jordan." The dictator's remarks were made with an assurance that his demeanor did not fully match. This was a heady game he was playing: one man against 22 of the world's most powerful nations−though he counted on having some on his side to begin with, and others if he played his cards right...