Word: glacial
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...order to keep Barzel out-even though Erhard himself has a well-known dislike for backstage politics. After last week's bombshell, Erhard met with his party presidium in Bonn, heard Foreign Minister Gerhard Schroder argue angrily that Barzel's proposals would wreck NATO, and issued a glacial statement sniffing that Barzel's ideas were strictly "personal opinions...
...almost glacial calm, Rusk considers diplomacy a slow, dull business-and he is grateful that it is. "Let's not have too much excitement these days," he observes. "It's too damn dangerous." Addressing a group of State Department visitors last week, he counseled: "Reserve judgment to a degree until you dig into the heart of a problem. Glandular reactions are not good enough any more." He is uncharacteristically cutting toward "these third-party amateurs who are so busy trying to mediate the Viet Nam war," mostly without any suspicion that hundreds of existing diplomatic channels have been...
There has been continuous habitation of the Hell Gap area since late glacial times, according to age determinations made by the radiocarbon method...
...glacial pace at which Robert Symonds has directed The Country Wife is a further handicap. Speed, as well as brevity, is the soul of wit, and double entendres go best at the double-quick. Tame Wycherley is lame Wycherley-which is precisely what is wrong at Lincoln Center...
Purebred Siamese. Capucine's secret is that she carries over to the screen the grand hauteur she learned as a haute couture model, then plays her glacial poise for laughs. Not even the antics of Peter O'Toole and Woody Allen could persuade the Pussycat to purr, but fanciers, fatigued with Ursula Andress as an alley cat and Romy Schneider as a kitten, applauded Capucine's purebred Siamese and gave her a bigger share of laughs in a Sellers market. In Panther, she kept a straight face while she slammed the door on the nose...