Word: gracing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Another man Eisenhower learned to appreciate during the campaign was Harold Stassen, who had accepted the death of his own presidential chances with good grace and became a valued member of the Eisenhower strategy staff. Ike considered him for Labor or the Mutual Security Administration (foreign aid); Stassen, long deeply interested in international affairs, preferred...
...Since when," Pugh asked the Association of Military Surgeons, "has the doctor of medicine and dentistry become such a pantywaist as to require that a bald responsibility, which others accept with good grace, must be decked out with certain frills before he will buy it?" Pugh brushed aside objections that military service for doctors involves too much moving around or too little chance for advanced training. The main objection remaining, he said, "is simply a matter of easier, quicker and bigger money-avarice; a better, if . . . possibly an ephemeral, opportunity to get rich quick...
...invariably drinks a cup of tea on rising and takes an icy shower immediately afterward. At his mess, grace is said before each meal. He insists that his shoes be coated with a combination of vaseline and boot polish at night, left fallow until morning and then polished vehemently for maximum glitter. He fondly hopes that Marine officers will once more take to carrying swagger sticks, and in the field he is never without his own oversized version, a polished length of Haitian Coco-macaque wood. His hobbies are muscular: riding, spearfishing, fly-casting. A red-handled fly swatter reposes...
...falls short of being a ballet, Baptiste has a gay, floating, slightly intermittent charm, with more unusual comic effects than choreographic ones. For real substance from the troupe, Broadway had still to wait: their first bill was rather a triumphant avoidance of it, an exercise in sheer airiness and grace...
Prisoner of Grace, by Joyce Gary. The story of Nina Nimmo and her lifetime bargain with two men; a new novel by one of the liveliest writers alive (TIME...