Word: stolidness
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Nicklaus acted as if he had cotton in his ears. He had played with Palmer during the first two rounds of the tournament, and he was used to Arnie's Army. As a matter of fact, the bigger Palmer's gallery, the better stolid Jack Nicklaus liked it. "Arnie always draws the big gallery wherever he goes," he said. "And a big gallery around the green is the biggest advantage a player can have. If you miss the green, you know the ball isn't going very far. The people just can't step...
...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...
...Amsterdam Exchange maintained the appearance of stolid Dutch calm so well that in the midst of a sell-off that sent Philips Lamp plummeting from $205 to $185, a tourist wandered onto the floor under the impression that he was in a museum...
...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...