Word: aplomb
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...gossip was inspired. "I came to know Proust during the War: dirty, untidy, with a voice like a peacock. His conversations were like his letters, interminable explanations of why he could not stay longer. He had an absolutely oily timidity, and made a great show of aplomb which was entirely secondhand...
...memo was a devastating blast at Nasser, he was not the only critic. At the opening meeting of the Arab League, the conference host himself, Morocco's King Hassan II, repeated Bourguiba's themes but in milder terms. As conference chairman, Nasser weathered the storm with considerable aplomb, pointing out that the conferees would get nowhere if they limited themselves to diatribes. Then he cleared the hall of all but the twelve heads of state so that the Arab leaders could bicker on in privacy...
...into the city's Special Branch intelligence net. He was taped and filmed in the act, tossed quietly into jail. Lee then offered to free the agent in return for $33 million in U.S. economic aid for his nation. The U.S. refused, said Lee with superb aplomb, and instead "insulted" him with a counteroffer of $3,300,000 for Lee personally and his People's Action Party...
...head. His coverage of the 1956 presidential campaign impressed Adlai Stevenson enough to offer him a job on a projected White House staff. While reporting the last Republican convention, Chancellor suffered the indignity of being carted out of the hall by the cops. He did not lose his aplomb. "I'm being taken down off the arena now by the police," he calmly reported over TV as he was being ousted, "and I'll check in later. This...
John Chancellor, somewhere in custody." He will need that aplomb in his new job. VOA is under attack, on the one hand, for broadcasting too much material critical of the U.S.; on the other, for trying to sell America too hard. When Chancellor's predecessor, Henry Loomis, quit last March, he criticized the Administration for making the Voice too propagandistic. Chancellor says that he intends to maintain VGA's objectivity, reporting the bad as well as the good side of the news about the U.S. Johnson says he wants the same thing, though it can be argued that...