Word: aplomb
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...worked as a crewmember aboard several Texas Oil Company tankers, sometimes calling Port Arthur, Texas where both Gulf and Texaco have large refineries. My main interest at the time was filming a movie on oil pollution; Gulf, Texaco and the other big oil companies have confronted pollution with great aplomb in their advertising, but they have taken little action to change actual shipboard procedures such as cleaning cargo tanks at sea. There were no black officers aboard any of the ships I was on, though there were many unlicensed black seamen. Gulf, Texaco, Esso, and other major tanker operators control...
James Coburn, who usually projects all the charm and style of a mothball, plays Carey with just the right kind of good-humored aplomb. He even man ages to keep his cool when the delicious dietitian (Jennifer O'Neill) confesses that her estranged husband used to think "the things I like to do in bed are immoral." Coburn sifts this information for just a second, then replies enthusiastically, "They are, they...
Foxx's delivery of such gag lines is like a rasp drawn gently across the funnybone. With timing that would take an atomic clock to measure, he teases a laugh like a yo-yo on the end of a string. A figure of grizzled aplomb, he can get up from a spread of ham hocks and pinto beans, then strut through a junky living room as if he were Louis XIV in the Hall of Mirrors at Versailles...
...White House to reclaim his occasional place behind the desk in the presidential office. He brought along his mother Loci Johnson Nugent, swiveled happily in the big presidential chair and gleefully pounded the desk with a gavel. At his press conference, young Lyndon fielded questions with all the aplomb of his grandfather. Did he know who used to work here? "Boppa." Who likes elephants? "President Nixon." If he has absorbed from his family any other insights into Boppa's successor, he showed the political savvy to keep them to himself...
...part, North Carolina has reacted with revolutionary aplomb. The legislature in Raleigh resolved that "immediate steps should be taken for the actual defense of North Carolina's borders with Georgia, including measures to mobilize the North Carolina highway patrol, North Carolina National Guard and, if necessary as a last resort, build fortifications on the present border...