Word: flair
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...wanted "to do things faster than the corporate management wanted to move." His successor is Maxwell McCrohon, 43, an amiable Australian who first came to the U.S. in 1952 as a correspondent for a Sydney paper. He settled in Chicago nine years later and has brought plenty of flair to the Trib's afternoon sister, Chicago Today, as its managing editor for the past two years...
...Viet Nam Veterans Against the War have a special flair for the symbolic: last spring they provided the searing spectacle of men angrily hurling medals won in Indochina against the U.S. Capitol. Last week, in quickly organized protest against the increased bombing in Viet Nam, they occupied briefly the South Vietnamese consulate in San Francisco, the Betsy Ross house near Philadelphia's Independence Hall, the Lincoln Memorial in Washington and the Statue of Liberty...
...doing all that?and doing it with a flair for secrecy and surprise that has marked his leadership as both refreshingly flexible and disconcertingly unpredictable?Richard Milhous Nixon, more than any other man or woman, dominated the world's news in 1971. He was undeniably the Man of the Year...
...helping hand at the start primarily because Steinem and several of her writers are members of its own staff. Judging by the first issue, Ms. would seem to have a lot of New York's clubby, with intensity but not enough of its firecracker prose or provocative flair...
...belonged to the dynamic leftist union, the Industrial Workers of the World (the Wobblies), a radical who was executed on a murder conviction based on circumstantial evidence, Hill led a colorful life perfect for idealization. During the months of court appeals be encouraged the myth growing around him. His flair for the dramatic continued down to his parting words of "Don't waste any time in mourning--Organize!" and insured his elevation to martyrdom. Such a man surrounded by such a legend calls for a hard, accurate film of dignity and restrained anger. Joe Hill is not such a movie...