Word: mien
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...holy men (estimated total: 8,000,000) who roam all over India like carnival medicine men in the frontier U.S., wandering the face of the land in search of a quick rupee, with little to attest to their powers but a loin cloth, a straggly beard and a fanatic mien...
...move, when consummated, will put scholarly, competent Heinrich von Bren-tano in a commanding if not certain position to lead the Christian Democratic Party once Adenauer retires or dies. A tense, chain-smoking bachelor of solemn mien, Brentano is the scion of a Frankfurt family that for two centuries has produced philosophers and professors. He is a connoisseur of wines, a lover of highbrow talk, collector of old silver and old furniture. He distrusts political eloquence, is an indifferent orator himself, although a good lawyerlike diplomat and bargainer. Although Brentano is one of the founders of the C.D.U. party...
...Michigan members are regularly assessed for some $2,600,000 for educational work that has never been known to hurt the Democratic cause in populous Wayne County (Detroit). "Look what we're up against," says Feikens, an ardent youngish (38) lawyer with the lean and hungry mien of a Packard dealer. "This is the best-heeled, toughest political gang in the country...
...used to damn the entire clergy. The priests found an unexpected ally in Kyoto's Communists who. bitterly opposing the mayor on any count, promptly joined the fray with a sound truck that blared out the charge that Takayama was "persecuting religion." With their most pious mien, the priests thereupon barred the doors of their temples to all but "genuine worshipers," whom they admitted free. The definition of a "genuine worshiper"? One who agreed to make a "voluntary" (and hence taxfree) donation later...
That he was prepared was demonstrated next day at a 31-minute press conference that centered on bombs, missiles and peripatetic Russians, but found time for a political question more personal than the one on Dick Nixon. When I.N.S. Columnist Ruth Montgomery asked with mock-solemn mien what he thought about Democratic election-year strategy to make him the prime campaign target, Ike shrugged and laughed. "Well, I think it is perfectly correct," he said. "I am the head of the Administration, and I have been shot at before...