Word: aplomb
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...this capitalistic rite of spring. Company directors grinned and bore the usual questions about executive wages, profit sharing, charitable contributions, and cumulative stock voting. A.T. & T.'s new chairman, Haakon I. Romnes, greeted his 4,801 guests at Baltimore's Civic Center and handled the meeting with aplomb. In Detroit, Chrysler shareholders barely flinched when Chairman Lynn A. Townsend told them that first-quarter earnings had plummeted 71 % from a year earlier...
...Harold Wilson that a painting of William Pitt the Younger bore the signature of George Romney, the 18th century English portraitist. In a private session with 200 British peers and Members of Parliament, left-wing Laborites did their best to bait him, but Humphrey fielded their barbed questions with aplomb, won a standing ovation at the end. "That was a magnificent performance," said Conservative Party Leader Ted Heath. In Bonn, his talks with West Germany's Chancellor Kurt Georg Kiesinger went off smoothly, even though they took place immediately after the news had leaked out that...
...diplomat-warriors that President Johnson has assigned to Viet Nam: the success of its predecessors. U.S. Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge, 64, during two tours and 29 months of duty in Saigon, has jjj overseen the wrenching political transition from Ngo Dinh Diem to Nguyen Cao Ky with rare aplomb. Lodge's deputy, William J. Porter, 52, took a scant 18 months to turn "rural pacification" from a Utopian dream to a viable program. But if the departing officials set a fast pace, the new team that Lyndon Johnson presented last week gives every promise of being able not only...
Swann is a bespectacled cricket on a piano bench. He and his piano both chirp. Flanders, confined to a wheelchair by polio, looks like a maharajah temporarily deprived of his turban, bearers and ceremonial umbrella. He possesses the slightly disdainful aplomb, though not the waspish irascibility of a black-bearded Monty Woolley. When the two sing together in revue style, their words dance-whether it be a mock blues about the unrequited love of a nearsighted armadillo for an abandoned tank or a toast to the second law of thermodynamics in a foaming Einstein of boozy intellectual suds that tweaks...
...breech births, shark attacks, luaus, lava-lavas and assorted shouts and muumuus-not to mention a large number of young wahines who appear in a state of nature and fill the giant screen with impressive outcroppings of what Hawaiians call papaia. What's more, the principals play with aplomb. Julie Andrews brings both sensuality and sensibility to a role that might easily have wallowed in sweetness and light. And Von Sydow is superb as the parson. He plays him larger than life: as a personification of the historic battle between the Puritan psychosis and the natural...