Word: flair
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Matter of Batting. In the midst of Russia's dangerous mixture of bluster and acknowledged technological performance, the free world can take considerable satisfaction from the fact that the U.S. Air Force is in command of a brilliant, unobtrusive West Pointer with a flair for understatement. Tommy White, 56, a tall, austere airman with a ramrod-back carriage, well knows the Russian danger, well knows the need to tighten and use the bomber force-in-being to best advantage while the U.S. brings in its missile force...
Libby will also bring to the U.S. Congress a flair for unintentional comedy. Dubbed "Mr. Malaprop" by the Chicago press, he refers to voters of Slavic ancestry as "Slavishes," once spoke of late autumn as the time of year when "the moss is on the pumpkin." Last week, asked why he had been keeping comparatively quiet since the primary, Libby replied: "I am trying not to make any honest mistakes...
...week Pope Pius XII discoursed on the subject of clothes to 70 delegates of Rome's first International Congress of High Fashion. His gist: Adam's and Eve's fig leaves set a sound fashion for fallen man. In the speech, the Pope displayed remarkable literary flair. On one hand, he said, clothes are a kind of language. "They tell us who is happy and who in mourning, who is rich, who is poor. They allow us to distinguish between the sacred and the profane." At the same time, clothes also have the function of concealment. "There...
...before opening own fashion house. Others in the running: House of Dior Designers Yves Saint Laurent and Yorn Michaelsen, who worked closely with Dior. Company will probably coast along for a year on momentum and designs left by Dior, but test of its ability to continue Dior's flair will come in August with showing of big winter collection...
...novel by Franchise Sagan, and the best that can be said for it is that reading its proofs may have done her some good as occupational therapy following her recent near-fatal auto accident. Author Sagan's Bonjour Tristesse and A Certain Smile showed a certain flair and skill, gave many readers the intriguing sensation of observing precocious children playing grown-up games. In Those Without Shadows, the kids are a little older and they are no longer saying bonjour to sadness; in the words of a current U.S. pop tune, they are shouting "Hello, Emptiness...