Word: froid
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...World War II, Taylor earned the sobriquet "Mr. Attack." During the hearings, he proved that he is also a master of cool, impenetrable defense. Under heavy fire from committee members, Taylor, crisply handsome in dark grey suit and TV-blue shirt, held his ground with the grace and sang-froid of a man whose intellect and experience were more than a match for his august adversaries...
Should disaster threaten in spite of all precautions, try to relax, go limp and let yourself fall gently. However, Dr. Manson admits that such sang-froid "takes practice...
Should disaster threaten in spite of all precautions, try to relax, go limp and let yourself fall gently. However, Dr. Manson admits that such sang-froid "takes practice...
...Fantastic," said Toni Sailer, who swept every gold medal in men's Alpine skiing at the 1956 Olympics. "I would bet on her to win at Innsbruck." Paris' Le Monde rhapsodized over Jean's "sang-froid," her sureness, her precision, and L'Equipe celebrated her "sweetness of manner, happy healthiness, and dazzling smile." Jean was busy talking about teaching school and joining the Peace Corps, and when people asked her why she skied so much faster than everybody else, she just smiled sweetly and said: "Gee, I don't know...
...Gabrielle lives with a gouty old husband and keeps a handsome young lover. One afternoon while tangoing (the year is 1913), he tells her he is betrothed to another-but, with true Gallic practicality, assures her that this need not interrupt their dalliance for a moment. Gabrielle, combining sang-froid with S. Freud, goes along with this, and together they plot to kill her husband. But the lover's pistol only clicks, and the husband shoots him instead. Gabrielle's duplicity soon turns into triplicity, and before the episode ends, she has two more victims. Three...