Word: demeanor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Despite the general quiet during the ceremony, several spectators threw bags of water, rotten tomatoes, and skinned haddock. At least one member of the Cambridge press was manhandled by the 'Poon's uniformed guards, who occasionally relaxed their official demeanor to fling a haddock or two back at the crowd...
...shoulder, open-palmed gestures came easy, and he was just as natural about wrapping a friendly arm around a farmer and calling him by his first name. But one thing was different: Russell was not promising to make every man a king; he was sticking to the respectful, respectable demeanor which had surprised Washington during his first two years in his father's old Senate seat...
...pleasantly warned by some of the Hotel Statler's better martinis, had seated themselves in a half-circle around Lilienthal who was tilted comfortably back against a wall. "In these lectures I'm going back to the place where we start thinking," he said. "By my demeanor, and by what I say, I hope to indicate the optimism I feel...
...Samuel Johnson, "the great convulsionary, [was] a kind of intellectual John Bull, dogmatic, tough and rather insensitive . . . beneath [whose] assured demeanor lay a torment .of apprehensiveness, doubt and misgivings . . ." His antics suggested St. Vitus' dance but were actually of psychic, not organic, origin. Obsessed with a sense of guilt and fears of insanity and death, Johnson prescribed his own remedy for fits of melancholia: busying himself with involved arithmetical problems...