Word: dour
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Mikhail Alekseevich Menshikov, Russia's new ambassador to the U.S. A foreign-trade specialist who persuasively sold the Soviet trade-plus-aid approach as ambassador to India, Envoy Menshikov, 55, is conspicuously suited to the Kremlin's peaceful-coexistence line. In black-and-white contrast to his dour, clam-mouthed predecessor, Georgy Zarubin, he flashes a wide and easy smile, spouts friendly sentiments in fluent English. Upon arrival in the U.S. a fortnight ago, he promptly declared himself an ambassador of "peace, friendship and cooperation." Last week he paid courtesy visits to Vice President Nixon and half...
...play need not be so dour and melodramatic as Director Michael Kirby makes it. He has almost all of his characters bluster at each other from the moment the show begins. There are many scenes in which he rides roughshod over the poetry of the script. The small insights into character are one of Garcia Lorca's main assets as poet and play-wright, and by throwing them away he hamstrings the whole production. A bit of humor as well as more understanding and less frenetic acting would give the play vastly more verisimilitude, and in consequence make the tragedy...
...outspoken leader of the opposition in Congress. His fluent oratory and eccentric flair (he always dresses in a striking black suit, tie and hat, lunches at the Union Club but orders a favorite peasant dish of highly spiced rice and beans) gave him a needed advantage over Orlich, a dour, earnest candidate...
...stolid, dour lawyer, Adams reversed tradition by beginning as a moderate and moving to the left. On coming home from Oxford in 1925, he won his first seat in the legislature through the influence of a planter. But he was soon attacking the "dictatorship" of the landowners, and when Depression-struck sugar workers rioted in 1937, Adams was blamed by the governor for inciting the violence...
...decisive words came from the government's official spokesman, dour, waxen-faced Lord Kilmuir, the Lord Chancellor. "The government do not think that the general sense of the community is with the committee in its recommendation, and therefore they think the problem requires further study." In other words, unless public opinion changed, the government was going to keep homosexuality on the criminal list...