Word: aplomb
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...expressed amazement at the excellence of one forgery, Schneider turned red with pleasure and stood up and made a small bow towards the bench. Schneider also proudly explained how he avoided detection once. An orderly-room corporal had seen him pocket a rubber stamp for possible future use. With aplomb Schneider returned the stamp, explaining: "I was testing your psychological response...
...void of such time-wasting nonsense as "hello" and "goodbye," and he often hangs up when he has said his piece, leaving the fellow on the other end of the line dangling in midsentence. He can stare daggers at a visitor, or just as easily ignore him with supreme aplomb...
...speaker at last week's National Press Club luncheon in Washington was introduced as an "All-American Russian." He was short, of average build, blue-eyed, grey-haired, wearing a neat and conservative suit; his air of aplomb as he looked around the crowded room was that of a subdued advertising executive. He spoke good English, and as he began to read the text of a formal speech he ad-libbed that he liked to ski, swim, play tennis; he broadened that into "good sportsmanship" and that into "good neighbors" and that into "peaceful coexistence...
Businessmen were delighted with the victory for free enterprise. Taking defeat with his usual aplomb, Pepe declared: "I showed them how to run a country; now I'll show them how to oppose." First task for Oppositionist Figueres: patching up differences with maverick Rossi, who perhaps drained off enough votes to ensure Echandi's election. In the new Congress, Pepe will have 19 seats, to 19 for the two factions behind Echandi. Rossi, with five seats, holds the balance of power...
Actor Ustinov is an adroit comic whom Playwright Ustinov knows how to write for, and with his spiels and shrugs and sallies, his air of heading a second-rate fraternal order rather than a country, he is frequently fun. He scampers about with the careless aplomb of a musicomedy star...