Word: standoffishness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...eyed as a Walt Disney angel. She began with a ten-second acceptance speech of simple thanks, fought for control, lost, talked on for another ten seconds and still another. Later, when her sister, Joan Fontaine, rushed backstage to congratulate her, Olivia froze and moved away. (The girls were standoffish even before Joan beat out Olivia for the 1941 Oscar...
...Colorados won, as they had for 80 years, Uruguay would continue its pro-U.S., pro-Hemisphere policies, its standoffish attitude toward Argentina. The Blancos would like to "unite with Perón for a political, economic and social revolution sweeping the entire American Continent." Naturally, Perón was aiding his friends. He had crimped wheat shipments so that Uruguayans ate black bread last week. The inference was obvious: vote Blanco and get white bread. To promote the idea. Perón had reportedly funneled into Uruguay 2,000 of his strong-arm boys...
...John P. Lewis had been running the paper, had put it briefly in the black last year. When Lewis' restless boss came back, many of Lewis' people (including the ones he hired during the war) were the first to go. Next to go was PM's standoffish attitude toward scandal...
When handsome, white-topped Edward R. Stettinius became Under Secretary of State, things perked up. The State Department's crusty old walls got a coat of paint. Higher-watt light bulbs blossomed in the dim hallways. Officials of the traditionally standoffish Department stepped up to NBC microphones with a weekly series of folksy Saturday night dialogues ("The State Department Speaks"). Last week the streamlining reached a climax. The Department announced a stem-to-stern shake-up of its whole shop-a reorganization to grapple more realistically with the new U.S. role in a new kind of world...
...Bank of England's standoffish Governor Montagu Norman very rarely can be induced to make a speech anywhere. But he will make one this week at a London luncheon which will be attended by an assortment of bigwigs - Cabinet members, Members of Parliament, businessmen, foreign ambassadors. Later the same day there will be a frilly "sherry party" at the Savoy Hotel. The occasion for all this decorous festivity: the 100th birthday of the London Economist, a sedately liberal, authoritative British weekly which ranks with such respected and influential British newspapers as the London Times and Manchester Guardian...