Word: fashioned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...issuing statements "at variance with facts." Already depressed and testy, Kissinger was at the outer limits of his self-control when asked at a press conference about the House committee's charges. He exploded, accusing the committee of misusing classified information "in a tendentious, misleading and totally irresponsible fashion [that] has already done damage to the foreign policy of the U.S." Kissinger charged the committee with practicing "a new version of McCarthyism" and called its report "a malicious...
...exacted from men as substance and process, not as a sight for a city-dwelling impressionist on an outing. Millet's The Plain of Chailly, 1862, was unlike virtually every previous landscape in Western art. It is neither a bird's-eye "world view" in the fashion of Bruegel nor a meditation on cosmic energy as in Turner. It is not "romantic." Especially, it is not a vision of property, such as Rubens painted. What it offers is a numbing pressure of material substance. The plain stretches away under the winter sky, its bleak horizontality interrupted only...
...soda jerk named K.O.K. spoons out free banana splits to two buddies who stroll in. Boss "Scoops" calls the boy aside and points out that, although he makes only $1 per hour, K.O.K. has just spent $6 on ice cream for his friends. "Son," says Scoops in a fatherly fashion, "you're supposed to make $4 today. Now you've gotta work two more hours just to get back to zero." Blurts out the incredulous K.O.K.: "Oh, man, hey, I didn't even know there was a below zero. Man, I'm in worse shape than...
Four other documents are English translations of receipts signed by Kodama (in Japanese fashion, with surname first) for payments totaling $2 million. They are dated November 1972-the same month that All Nippon Airways agreed to buy $130 million worth of Lockheed's TriStar jetliners, in a deal that was regarded as crucial to the company's survival...
...often these women either prepare formulas in an unsanitary fashion or dilute them excessively in order to economize. In the first case, babies develop digestive disorders that can lead to malnutrition; in the second, they become malnourished directly. Either way, the malnutrition can cause death...