Word: extroverted
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...Herod came to General Electric Co. in 1919 from Yale (after a short interlude in the Army) with a tool kit full of honors in mechanical engineering, an extrovert's drive. He asked such questions as: "What does a fellow have to do to become president of a company like G.E.?" In 1945, Herod partially answered his own question. He took over as head of G.E.'s far-reaching subsidiary which runs factories in half a dozen foreign countries (Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, Turkey, the Union of South Africa) and sells over $100 million worth of equipment...
...According to the yarn, Smathers had a little speech for cracker voters, who were presumed not to know what the words meant except that they must be something bad. The speech went like this: "Are you aware that Claude Pepper is known all over Washington as a shameless extrovert? Not only that, but this man is reliably reported to practice nepotism with his sister-in-law, and he has a sister who was once a thespian in wicked New York. Worst of all, it is an established fact that Mr. Pepper before his marriage habitually practiced celibacy...
...extrovert Dartmouth nine brought-Brooklyn Dodger baseball to chilly Soldiers Field yesterday afternoon as the Varsity and the Indians split an Ivy League double-header. The visitors took the first game 5 to 1 without trouble, and the Crimson eked out a 6 to 5 decision in the hectic nightcap...
Mock marathon entries and seductive models may have held the spotlights in Jubilee's ultra-extrovert publicity up to now, but a theatrical item in the weekend's activities will play a larger part in the future...
...week the Star was in mourning. The day after its presses had rolled (after a carriers' strike), its white-haired president, Earl McCollum, had died. The man who took command last week, after briskly settling the strike, was ably affable Roy Allison Roberts, 59, the fat and florid extrovert who, as managing editor for 19 years, has been the driving force behind the strongest newspaper monopoly...