Word: flair
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wind that has swept away other men and regimes. What makes him significant is the meeting of two great forces-Communism and nationalism-that Tito managed instinctively to play off against each other. When he needed strength for his rebellion against Moscow, the man with peasant roots and romantic flair could draw on his people's patriotism; when he needed strength to subdue his own turbulent people, the practiced conspirator and Marxist dialectician could draw on Moscow police methods. If more of the world could understand the brutality of this ideological alliance-which persists despite very real political rifts...
Strauss sent a driver to haul the reluctant general back, explained in equally tough terms that he himself often had to wait half an hour or more for his boss, Federal Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, and thought nothing of it. Then Strauss, who has a flair for the dramatic gesture to point a moral, sacked General Müller-Hillebrand and gave a one-word explanation of his action: "Insubordination." German newspapers seemed delighted...
...Dictionary of Contemporary American Usage (Random House; $3.95). Evans, 52, a professor of English at Northwestern University, wrote the book with his like-minded sister, Cornelia Evans, 56, a writing consultant to the U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare. Their book has the same zestful flair that turned Bergen Evans into a national TV personality as the earnest, rapid-talking moderator of CBS's The Last Word (TIME...
...dispassionate Victorian man of reason, his son's model and hero. An agnostic, he has been cut down in the fullness of life by cancer, and young Arthur learns his first sobering lesson-"How dies the wise man ... as the fool." With life's occasional flair for overemphasis, the lesson is repeated when Arthur's first wife, Hope, dies from the aftereffects of childbirth. Something else has died first-the youthful illusion that they had fallen in love with each other, when they had only fallen in love with love. In name Hope was a wife...
...property owners told him bluntly in 1948 that "we don't want any undesirable people coming into this neighborhood," he replied: "Neither do I. If I see anybody undesirable coming in here, I'll be the first to complain.") Though polished and well-mannered, he has a flair for the astringent crack. When critics complained that he had deserted pure jazz for sentimental corn, he said: "Critics don't buy records-they get 'em free." He dubbed Bandleader Lawrence Welk "a musical Ed Sullivan...