Word: hauteur
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...There must have been a moment in China when it became fully apparent that the West had had it. One day last week such a moment came in Teheran. Suddenly the consequences of Britain's policy of icy commercial hauteur and America's righteous paralysis were starkly obvious...
This is "an extremely difficult ploy to counter," but the tables can be turned by a patient who replies with some hauteur, "They appear rather steatorrhoeic...
...ruled the delta flats and neon jungles of Jefferson Parish, near New Orleans. Clancy was at his imperial best when the U.S. Senate's crime investigators swooped into Louisiana last month with embarrassing questions about gambling, whorehouses and bookie joints. He received the investigators with proper hauteur and met their questions with regal silence...
...that has enchanted the Baldwin millions. The first show opened with harp strings, cloud formations and a lyric hymn to Maidenform ("The dream of a bra . . . the largest-selling brassiere in the world!"), illustrated with sexy shots of bra-girls skiing, stretching, or just standing around in half-dressed hauteur...
White-haired Andrei Vishinsky, who had been gossiping amiably with Elder Statesman Bernard Baruch, froze in his seat. Then, in a move familiar in U.N. circles, but still a shock at social gatherings, he got up and, followed obediently by the Soviets' Jacob Malik, strode with all available hauteur from the room...