Word: traites
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...aristocratic, and fashions himself a closet literary critic with a passion for Guy de Maupassant. He has learned to manipulate the constitution and the press to serve his interests, and today projects an almost frigid aura of statesmanship. Giscard now practices with atavistic veracity de Gaulle's most imperial trait--standing at a calculated distance form his people. And judging from his re-election prospects, the French approve...
Ardor is a trait that has revealed itself since his days as an undergraduate. After two years spent as a Marshall scholar at Hertford College, he returned to Harvard and became an official at the fledgling Institute of Politics while working on his Ph.D. thesis, eventually published as The Essence of Decision. In 1966, he acted as a decoy when Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara, the first IOP "honorary associate," was beseiged by 700 angry anti-war demonstrators--the first indication that the war would not let the University rest in peace...
Ardor is a trait that has revealed itself since his days as an undergraduate. After two years spent as a Marshall scholar at Hertford College, he returned to Harvard and became an official at the fledgling Institute of Politics while working on his Ph.D. thesis, eventually published as The Essence of Decision. In 1966, he acted as a decoy when Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara, the first IOP "honorary associate," was beseiged by 700 angry anti-war demonstrators--the first indication that the war would not let the University rest in peace...
Ardor is a trait that has revealed itself since his days as an undergraduate. After two years spent as a Marshall scholar at Hertford College, he returned to Harvard and became an official at the fledgling Institute of Politics while working on his Ph.D. thesis, eventually published as The Essence of Decision. In 1966, he acted as a decoy when Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara, the first IOP "honorary associate," was beseiged by 700 angry anti-war demonstrators--the first indication that the war would not let the University rest in peace...
...only one manifestation of the impulse that is, in its deeper workings, nothing less than the engine for the advancement of the species. This was no doubt so even in unrecorded ages. Now that society has become so proficient at keeping records as a way of celebrating the competitive trait, it is no wonder that people get so carried away in the making and breaking of them. Moreover, the likelihood is that in the future, well...