Word: gentlemanly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Another Cabinet member too loyal to the President to express his doubts in public was Under Secretary of State George Ball. Inside the Johnson Administration, Ball was known as "Mr. Stop the Bombing." Outside, he was the perfect gentleman, his lips sealed against his own misgivings. Even today Ball says, "Why should I have resigned in protest over Viet Nam policy just because I disagreed with it? My main responsibility and my principal interest was Western Europe." Yet Ball was the No. 2 man in the State Department. If he and others in powerful positions had made a public issue...
...tailoring establishments that cluster in and around London's Savile Row seem as immutably English as crumpets or coronets. And, like many another English institution, from the gentleman's club to the butler, the sartorial capital of the male world has been hard hit by rising costs and sagging incomes. Most of all, perhaps, the market for the classic "bespoke"* men's suits-which can run over $600 apiece-has been crimped by changing tastes and Savile Row tailors' haughty reluctance to acknowledge that, even in men's clothing, fashions do change...
...bounds, the Frisbee is turned over to the other team. When a player has the Frisbee, only one opponent at a time may try to block his pass. Substitutions are allowed during breaks in play, and fouls are called on the honor system. In this "gentleman's game," called fouls are rare...
...Michael Sarrazin. Now Sarrazin himself has some doubts about this nagging notion of double identity. It afflicts him, for one thing, with an annoying case of déjà vu, which recurs like a migraine. Quite understandably, he would prefer not to be lieve that he is a gentleman who distressed a great many young ladies some decades ago. There is no fooling Mother, however, who is as surprised to recognize her son as Sarrazin is alarmed...
...gentleman once said. 'Eat 'em!'," said the notice accompanying the bag of chocolate kisses in Weld boathouse last Saturday morning. It did not refer to the kisses themselves, though. Instead, the notice was aimed at the fourteen women's crews which went to the line last Sunday in an attempt to depose Radcliffe's heavyweight eight as the premier women's crew in the East...