Word: demeanor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...gropes carefully for words, as much from lack of confidence in his English as from concern to see that he is understood. The underground movement which he heads has been responsible for nation-wide destruction in Cuba in the last eleven months, but from his quiet and pacific demeanor little of this could be inferred...
...President's youthful vigor and serious demeanor served him well as he convincingly made it clear that 1) the U.S. could "take care of itself; 2) the U.S. intended to support and defend the U.N.for the sake of smaller independent nations who need it more than the U.S. does; 3) the Russians would be fooling with trouble if they tried to intervene in the Congo...
Since the nomination for Vice-President, however, there has been a striking change in the demeanor of Mr. Johnson. First there was his support of the Democratic platform, which earned him the hatred of his Texas constituents, and almost lost Kennedy the Texas electoral votes. Four days before the election, he was greeted in Dallas by an angry mob, with signs reading "I dreamed I went to Washington in my turncoat...
...bearing and his demeanor during the recent and current debacles of the summit blowup and the furor in Japan recall to many a U.S. heart, I am sure, a sentiment that Confucius approvingly ascribes to his pupil Tseng Ts'an: "In a moment of crisis he remains unshaken: Is such a man a Great...
Italian newspapermen, scribbling furiously, cabled home long reports of "this mortifying episode," and Khrushchev's "crude frankness." Returning to Rome, Gronchi was roundly cheered at the airport, and praised for his demeanor by newspapers that had originally criticized his visit. It was the turn of the Italian Communist press, which had trumpeted his tour, to realize that the tour had badly misfired and angered Italian pride. Khrushchev, said Rome's conservative Il Messaggero bitterly, obviously looks upon Italy as "a country of beggars and singers...