Word: demeanors
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...Westerners presented to Vyacheslav Molotov their plan for the Parley at the Summit, advocating a four-to-six-day conference with no set agenda, to be presided over in turn by the U.S., France, Britain and the Soviet Union. To the Western plan, Molotov made no objection; his demeanor was that of a man who had declared peace and was waiting for the others to recognize...
About the shining hour when Molotov was positioning his head into a ten-gallon 'hat in Cheyenne, a second sensational gesture of amiability was areadying in faraway Red China. Time for lotus and light, the Communists evidently concluded from the extraordinary demeanor of Big Brother; time to show the impressionables and the skeptics that Red China too was making headway toward cooperation (and toward such long-sought objectives as U.S. diplomatic recognition and membership...
...noted Washington lawyer, Abe Fortas, many Congressional investigations such as the McCarthy hearings have failed flagrantly to meet these tests. Fortas has said, "There are no standards of judgment, no rules, no traditions of procedures or judicial demeanor, no statute of limitations, no appeals, no boundaries of relevance, and no finality. In short, anything goes; and everything frequently does--and often on television...
...life is a simple thing that would interest no one," he told the first drove of reporters. But to Einstein's lasting astonishment, Americans were ready to idolize the shy professor with the eccentric look and demeanor that connoted "Genius." They read with fascination that money bored him (once he used a $1,500 check as a bookmark, then lost the book), that he was absent-minded (he once walked into the salon of a transatlantic liner wearing his pajamas), that his second wife, Elsa, once ate the orchids on her plate at a formal banquet, mistaking them...
...confusion in the Administration's security risk program (see below), but he left in a slip of the tongue which had the President saying Indonesia when he meant Indo-China. More reporters than usual wore television-blue shirts and eager looks, but the President maintained his customary earnest demeanor as he answered questions ranging from the Tachen crisis in Asia to how he likes his job (its blessings are "not wholly unmixed...