Word: personable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...chewing, breast-swinging hussy in How to Succeed in Business but she outdoes herself as Amanda. She sings her lines in a sliding Southern melody of speech, seducing with blue eyes and a wary but blooming smile. With a few early words, she captures at once Amanda's aging person but equally as well evinces her bubbling, sometimes annoying childlike penchant for story-telling...
...nothing can match the timing that Gauger demonstrated last week: she was the only journalist inside the U.S. embassy in Islamabad when it was attacked and burned by a Pakistani mob. Gauger's first-person account of the siege and her subsequent rescue is a substantial part of this week's cover story...
...heard the voices of foreign leaders and looked into their eyes, and must judge their words and meanings and their resolve. He is the only person with the power, the information and the duty to judge that moment when the interests of the U.S. and the free world weigh more heavily than the safety of the hostages. It is an awesome responsibility, understood only...
...would hardly call her a docile person," a former Cabot Hall resident said. Another friend commented, "She's sensitive person, a somewhat frequent observer of human nature," adding, "she may need that...
...running things and wonders about them and about what they will do next. The columns are breezy and interesting, 800 weekly words offering a glance at an issue or a man. It is a measure of Strout's talent that he can use that most pretentious of devices--first person plural--and still display a friendly and approachable, yet always impressive intellect...