Word: swaggers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have never seen another place where a sheriff could swagger around the polls advising voters: "I don't give a goddam who you vote fer-I'm gonna be your sher'f." And anyone who went fishing in Wallins Creek after an election was more likely to hook a ballot box than a fish...
...teen-age gangs who swagger about New York's West Side-in the standard uniform of leather jacket, ducktail hairdo and handy switchblade-like to boast that they are the Egyptian Dragons or the Assassins and that they can lick anybody on the street. But they can thank their geography that they have never had a rumble with a gang from the Far East...
Against this swagger-stick arrogance, Hearn can offer only a hesitant humanism, an instinctive revulsion against the general's icy formula. "How do you calculate," Hearn muses, "whether it's better if some of them get killed and the others get home sooner, or whether they all stay here but go to pot wondering if their wives are cheating on them? How do you tot something like that up?" Replies the general: "I don't concern myself with that...
Major General John Medaris, U.S. Army, 55, commander of the Huntsville Agency, with black mustache and swagger stick, often comes across as the dashing soldier type. He is something more and something different. Ohio-born John Medaris worked his way through high school driving a lobster-shift taxi and street car, began flying at twelve (he lied about his age). On his 16th birthday he enlisted in the Marine Corps, arrived in France too late for combat, was discharged as a corporal, and went back to Ohio State University for a degree in mechanical engineering. As a senior R.O.T.C. cadet...
...swank new house in Miami Springs (midway between Tropical Park and Hialeah), an air-conditioned Cadillac, a speedboat, a big farm (in West Virginia). The calculating look of his eyes, the short forehead sloping away from a long brown pompadour, the narrow, impatient face and snappy, little-boyish swagger convey the presence of a winner...