Word: mien
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...Kaltman, a blonde, fiftyish divorcée of formidably efficient mien and determined stride, whacked cuisine costs by making René use frozen foods (a "very lousy" thing in the White House, he complained). That was the beginning of the end. The end came ever closer when she also insisted on pointing out her favorite recipes in a well-thumbed copy of the Gourmet Cookbook. "I have a master pastry chef who has been doing these things for 40 years," muttered the disconsolate chef. "You just don't open the cookbook to page 40 and stick it under...
...authenticated in the world). In the Dutchman's first exhibition anywhere, all those from U.S. collections are on view at Ohio's Dayton Art Institute and are scheduled to move to the Baltimore Museum of Art. Their baroque realism, their tickling highlights, merry laughter and moralizing mien have established Terbrugghen as a forerunner of Vermeer, La Tour and Rembrandt...
India's Prime Minister Lai Bahadur Shastri (TIME cover, Aug. 13) is poles apart from Ayub Khan, physically, emotionally and personally. Scarcely 5 ft. tall, with a clerkish mien and a gentle, self-deprecating voice, the wonder is that Shastri ever became the head of the world's largest democratic state. But Shastri's meekness is deceptive, and, in Pakistani opinion at least, he is a determined, wily and resilient opponent...
From his solemn mien and the badge pinned defiantly on his lapel, anyone who spotted Orville Freeman on the street in recent weeks might have concluded that he was rehearsing for a cigarette commercial. And in fact, though his badge, I WILL NOT BOW DOWN TO THE BREAD TRUST, was hardly aimed at the consumer, the Secretary of Agriculture proved as unswitchable as they come...
...even unconquered tribes dared to oppose a man whose executioners would cut open 100 pregnant women to satisfy their ruler's transient interest in embryology, whose fierce regiments would slaughter each other unless quartered in widely separated kraals. Toward the white man, however, Shaka assumed a friendly mien. The first British pioneers to set foot in Zululand met with a truly stunning cordiality. Executions were held in their honor. Shaka signed peace pacts with his guests, ceded them his kingdom (he had no intention of delivering), asked little more in return than a supply of Rowland's Macassar...