Word: flair
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bombed their own airfields before fleeing to Florida. On the day of the invasion, he denied any U.S. responsibility. A few days later, Kennedy took complete responsibility for the Bay of Pigs-and the planes were revealed to be U.S. bombers that had been disguised, with little flair for the art, by the CIA. Deeply hurt, Stevenson was finally soothed with promises of better future liaison...
...times his flair for strong leadership strained the smoothly meshed G.M. System. Some aides thought that he delved too deeply into the affairs of autonomous divisions, and to many employees, the handsome man with pencil-thin mustache seemed autocratic and distant. To all he sometimes seemed ambitious...
Carter Wilson's new play is neither consistent nor polished. But it is never less than intriguing and at times rises to moments of dramatic flair. He and Walton have staged a successful experiment in the most instructive sense...
...well as to his listeners. Frescobaldiana revelled in bombast, the Hary Janos Suite, in special effects; and the familiarity of Schubert's "Unfinished" Symphony easily overcame any distractions which the excellence of the piece might have created. What they attempted, Swoboda and the HRO did with the greatest flair; what the audience now deserves is a program as musically ambitious as, say, last week's Bach Society concert. The forthcoming premiere of Frank Martin's choral work, in Sanders and in Carnegie Hall, indicates that Swoboda is swiftly moving in the right direction. With Friday's performance as a starting...
...Anderson Jr. when he was commander of the Sixth Fleet in the Mediterranean. It is also appropriate to the man who, as Chief of Naval Operations, holds responsibility for forging and operating the Cuba blockade. For he is an aggressive blue-water sailor of unfaltering competence and uncommon flair...