Word: relaxedness
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Giscard evidently hopes that a less-stiff presidential style will soften his image as a remote aristocrat living in a world of economics dossiers. Above all, a "more relaxed" presidency, Giscard feels, could help reduce the social tensions of a polarized nation.
Illinois Republican Congressman Robert Michel, also on board that evening, had anticipated that there might be a little tenseness, given the events of the past days in Washington. "It was," he reported later, "the most open kind of uninhibited meeting that I have had with him since he was Vice...
Coggan is not considered in Ramsey's league as an intellectual, but he has excellent credentials. He earned a double first at Cambridge, has written nine books and coordinated the translation of the New English Bible from Greek and Hebrew. A teacher of Semitic languages, he once responded graciously...
Egyptian President Anwar Sadat is often ill at ease in his office in Cairo's Abdin Palace. Its confined formality, he tells visitors, reminds him of prisons he was sent to for revolutionary plotting in Egypt's "colonial "days. Sadat is far more relaxed when he stays at...
After college she met a young Iranian, married him in 1960 and at age 23 was whisked off, first to Teheran, then to Pakistan, where her husband headed the Iranian cultural mission. "I came from a relaxed Jewish family," she recalls. "He came from a relaxed Moslem family. But naturally...