Word: unbending
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...still be stiffly Victorian when occasion demands it. A veteran aide recently criticized her favorite crooner: "Ma'am, that Bing Whatnot, blest if I can see what you see in him." "Sir," replied Elizabeth loftily, "you are not supposed to see all we see." But she can also unbend delightfully. "Often she has caught my eye when a slightly pompous person is executing a ceremonial gambit," confesses an old friend of Elizabeth's, "and we both have to look away hastily to keep from laughing...