Word: traites
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Golda made much of her humble beginnings, and humility was a trait she often professed. In real life she rarely practiced it. "Nobody crosses Golda," a former aide once said. She never forgot a slight. Yet she was willing to listen to almost anybody who asked for an audience, even though her listening could be a form of stonewalling. At the end, the coffee cups empty, the ashtrays full, the air staled in the close room, Golda would show her interlocutors into the thin dawn light-red-eyed, hoarse, exasperated, exhausted, knowing themselves defeated by the unshakable conviction of this...
...this Mead-worship was no faulty of Mead's Instead, it is a peculiar anomaly in men; once someone is proved competent in one field they are assumed knowledgeable in others. It is the same kind of curious trait one imagines Mead herself untangling...
...upper class sees social pushiness as a trait of the new rich. Quarreling with a salesperson or bank teller is considered gauche?it should be handled discreetly by the husband's secretary. An Internal Revenue Service investigator observes that the new rich are the ones who cheat flagrantly on their income taxes. "The traditionally wealthy," says he, "are accustomed to paying high taxes and know the graceful ways to avoid...
...will be followed by St. Lucia (pop. 120,000), St. Vincent (pop. 100,000), Antigua (pop. 75,000) and St. Kitts-Nevis (pop. 50,000). All the islands have been British Associated States, and all are leaving London's paternal embrace hungry for aid. They share one other trait: a capacity to cause problems for the 26-member OAS, which they all plan to join. Each will receive a vote equal to that of the U.S., Mexico and Brazil. Joining such other former British colonies as Jamaica and the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, the poor little paradises...
Costanza once called her job "a responsibility, not a title," and declared: "I'm not afraid to lose it. But when I leave I want to be the same person who walked in. I'm not gonna change." That obstinate trait was both a virtue and the reason for her downfall...