Word: gruffness
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...Gruff, honest Bridgman assigned Robert to a project involving a copper-nickel alloy. Oppenheimer built a furnace, made his alloy, completed the study with sufficient precision for Bridgman to publish the findings. Says Bridgman: "A very intelligent student. He knew enough to ask questions." After hours, at the Bridgman home, the conversation ranged far & wide, giving Oppenheimer chances to display his often irritating erudition. Once Bridgman identified a picture as a temple at Segesta, Sicily, built about 400 B.C. Young Oppenheimer quickly set his professor straight: "I judge from the capitals on the columns that it was built about...
...gruff and toothless old lion of U.S.politics growled softly with rheumatism and prepared once more for combat. The Socialist Party held its 1948 presidential convention in Reading...
Died. Wilhelm von Opel, 76, Germany's gruff, free-heiling mass-producer of autos; in Wiesbaden, Germany. He inherited his father's bicycle factory in the '90s, turned out his first all-German car in 1902, produced about a million with the help of Ford's assembly-line techniques, which he admittedly "stole with my eyes" during a visit to Detroit...
...Boston player brash enough to sit near him is Ted Williams, who calls him "Mister McCarthy" with an inflection that might pass for respect but might also be a star player's impudence. The Boston sportwriters have already declared a cold war on Marse Joe because of his gruff refusal to answer questions. Said a Boston Post sportwriter: "I don't talk to him, unless absolutely necessary...
...Christopher Lonsdale, now a ruddy, gruff and silver-haired 61, the theories of most modern pedagogues are so much "poppycock." "Keep 'em happy. That's their motto. But dammit, there's no easy road to learning." His masters, who sir him as the students do, conduct their classes with Victorian formality, emphasize the Scriptures, Greek and Latin: Boys who break minor rules are punished by extra work. Those who commit more serious offenses get a caning in the headmaster's office...