Word: sangfroid
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...certain that America does not want war, "but many Americans in all classes of society are capable of speaking of it with sangfroid, as a thing which can be envisaged. This more than anything else shows the difference which has grown up between Europe and America. As La Rochefoucauld said: 'One cannot look directly at either the sun or death.' That is how we Europeans consider...
...from 35% of the elected mukhtars (village headmen) to 17%. Ismet Inonu, leader of the opposition Republicans (and onetime President of Turkey, succeeding the late great Kemal Ataturk) took to the Assembly floor to accuse the government of intimidation at the polls. Premier Adnan Menderes lost his usual sangfroid. Inonu was a "liar," he cried, who "spoke with the coldbloodedness of a professional criminal." He added, staring at Inonu, "God will deal with...
...Sangfroid. In San Francisco, Edward Datche, resolutely keeping cool after crashing his automobile into one parked car and careening into another, nonchalantly lighted a cigarette, then flipped it into a pool of gasoline, which flamed and set fire to one of the three vehicles as well as two other cars...
...which Allah would raise him to heaven after death. The guy ropes of the medical tent sagged under a load of bloodstained surgical linen. As a handful of visitors, including TIME'S John Dowling, approached the tent, a weary French surgeon stepped out and said, with exquisite sangfroid: "I am enchanted to see you, messieurs...
...literary art and navigation. Author Jennings, who wrote 1939's best-selling Next to Valour (TIME, June 12, 1939), is an old hand: he knows how to cram a historical novel full to bursting with blood, sweat and tears, and can wield both cutlass and bobby-pin with sangfroid...