Word: trait
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...house." The only cause for criticism the young officer ever gave his superiors was an innate caution that made him less aggressive than they sometimes would have preferred-a reluctance to commit his troops to battle unless he felt absolutely sure he could win. It was a trait Thieu was to carry into politics...
Political aloofness, however, is not the most basic hippie trait. That is exploration of affection, of loneliness, of communication in general--a trait which the Beatles pluck from the depths of morbid introspection and express in their own constantly changing musical idiom...
...packed house at Fenway was more delirious over Andrews' bunt than any of the fireworks which preceded or followed it. His neat piece of strategy demonstrated a trait which was, until this year, a total stranger to Fenway Park. Intelligence...
...world's 110 million Arabs have shown time and again a total inability to swallow their pride-and a total ability to swallow their own hyperbole. The worse their humiliation, the more unbending they seem to become. A refusal to accept unpalatable reality can be a very human trait on which the Arabs have no monopoly; yet the Arabs carry it to dazzling extremes. What ails them? Can they overcome their condition and function successfully in today's world? Or are they really a case of arrested development, doomed for generations to the kind of emotional and political...
...They are emotional-at feasts or in war-to the point of delirium. They carry on ancient forms of politeness and hospitality, which, Princeton Scholar Morroe Berger suggests, help to control the most violent impulses of aggression. Yet they are also patient to the point of crippling fatalism, a trait reflected in the constant phrases, inshallah (if God wills it), malesh (it does not matter), and bukra (tomorrow). Above all, what they have in common is a language. "An Arab is anyone whose mother tongue is Arabic," says Gamal Abdel Nasser. It is not only the chief bond...