Word: fashion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Actually, the message contained little that Harry Truman had not recommended in scattershot fashion before. But by failing to assign any order or priority to his sweeping proposals, the President was obviously, and shrewdly, gunning for every vote he could reach...
...would have settled the fight among themselves and come up with carefully integrated plans. It was apparent that real unification had not yet taken place in the services. If it had, it would have meant "an enormous opportunity for savings," said the report, which, in a restrained fashion, recommended that Secretary of Defense James Forrestal should knock some heads together...
...have not the gentlemen downstairs," asked History, "just agreed to solve the Polish and Yugoslav questions in a friendly fashion...
...them. Many wore berets, had cigarette butts sticking to their upper lips just like the French workers; even the movements and gestures seemed to be Latin, and had lost the German rigidity. There was not a single example of a Prussian haircut,. . . two of them were even exaggerating the fashion of Parisian youngsters and wore their hair so long that they had to pin it back with a long buckle. Said one of them: 'You have to adapt yourself to the customs of your hosts, if only for politeness...
...door. When British Sculptor Henry Moore was commissioned to carve a Madonna and Child for a church, he resolved to "meet the subject half way," as he put it, by substituting a limited realism for his usual smooth abstraction. The compromise was recognizably human, in a streamlined sort of fashion, but inertly bland as stone could...