Word: dourness
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Like most good generals the world over, dour, gong-shaped Marshal Sarit has always professed a profound dislike and disinterest in politics. Instead, he has been content to boss the army and to combine business with business by seeing that most of the army's requirements for supplies and equipment are met by commercial firms he owns or controls himself. The marshal's business astuteness pleases his followers but they have long been distressed by his political indifference, and have watched with more than a tinge of envy as General Phao and his 50,000-man police force...
...first state banquet in Helsinki, high-living Nikita Khrushchev limited himself to one Martini, and goateed Premier Bulganin clung firmly to a glass of orange juice, whirling his forefinger alongside his temple to indicate that stronger liquids made him dizzy. What little serious drinking took place was done by dour Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko, who hopped about clinking glasses in an unpracticed attempt to work up a bit of gaiety. Perhaps he was still smarting under Bulganin's description of him to the Finns: "Quite a nice chap, but one of those fellows who will sit around all evening...
...after Beck and not his union, the nation's biggest. One day later they filled Dave's vacant chair with another Teamster, General Secretary-Treasurer John English, 68, a onetime coal-wagon driver who has been a Teamster 52 years, has never liked Latecomer Beck. Promised tall, dour John English: "We are going to wash our own dirty linen." The A.F.L.-C.I.O. believed him. To allow time for the scrubbing to begin, the A.F.L.-C.I.O. Ethical Practices Committee postponed indefinitely its scheduled investigation of the union that once belonged-lock, stock and cash drawer-to Dave Beck...
...week the General Assembly in Edinburgh elected Dr. George F. MacLeod its new moderator despite his known promerger leanings, vigorously shushed a delegate who opposed his election. But whatever sounds of ecumenical accord come this week from the General Assembly, in the background there will be the rumble of dour dissent from clergy and churchgoers. Rumbled the Scottish Daily Express: "The spirit of Knox is not dead...
...Death Curse. All work and no play made John a dour boy. What happened next was to make him a dour man. The same year he passed his law examination he married Eula Hicks, the prettiest girl in Sheridan, a tiny thing with a profusion of auburn ringlets. When John went away to World War I (he was discharged as a first lieutenant), something happened to the marriage. Exactly what is locked behind the tight lips of John McClellan himself. Court records show only that