Word: stolidness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...side, skipping around the country in a plane (both candidates have chartered DC-6Bs for $1,000 a day), Diefenbaker shows occasional flashes of the evangelical fire of the prairie lawyer that carried him to power in 1957 and again in 1958, but too often seems curiously defensive. Behind stolid placards intoning CARRY ON, JOHN (the Pearson adherents do no better with: BESTER WITH LESTER), Diefenbaker earnestly justifies the benefits of a devalued dollar in terms of increased trade, talks of recent improvements in unemployment, rising income and production. As to devaluation: "The only people who can be annoyed...
...their way of dealing simple concern with which most writers are stuck whether want it or not: what can be from the century and its though wars. Moravia has escaped by Dino, who is beyond being by the problem; Ayme his trust in the squat, stolid Martin. We should have had from Ayme if he had made fabulous and more human, but after all very likely impossible. only immediate conclusion one at is that love can be a often cloying study, boredom...
...staff after World War II, aided the general in producing his Memoirs, and has long been a close personal friend. A tall, hefty intellectual with bristling eyebrows and a heavy-featured face, Pompidou joined the investment bank of Rothschild Frères in 1954, swiftly rose to general director. Stolid where Debré was emotional, inclined to make broad judgments where Debré worried over details. Pompidou has been described as having "the same view of France and the same view of De Gaulle's destiny as De Gaulle himself." His appointment is widely interpreted as evidence that...
...Bradshaw's fellow players give him varying degrees of support. Madeline Rosten, as Barbara Allen, is a bit stolid on occasion, but she has the proper amount of scorn and sinfulness. Gary Zukav gives the part of Barbara's father an Andy Griffith reading, which somehow seems out of place, but he is funny. So is George Blecher, as Barbara's half-wit brother...
Died. Sir Percy Joseph Sillitoe, 73. former (1946-53) chief of M.I.5. Britain's fabled counter-espionage service, a stolid, strapping Londoner who worked his way up from ordinary constable, was drafted to run the secret service on the strength of his successes as a gangbusting police chief in a series of British cities, thereafter roamed the Commonwealth, often in disguise, investigating security capers that ranged from Communist meddling in the Mau Mau uprising to the defection of British scientists and diplomats; of leukemia; in Eastbourne, England...