Word: fashioned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Harvard rugby team opened its season in a rather lackluster fashion last Saturday as the A team tied Tufts, 6-6, while the B team lost 4-0 to the Jumbos...
...known only to my contact and his supervisor, that I was always to use my code name when I called in. I was given a phone number-a special phone that rang directly on the desk of one of the agents. Reports were rendered both in oral and written fashion. I was given an emergency phone number and was told not to write down this number but to memorize it. That if the number were found on me it could be dangerous. They told me that their particular areas of interest with people in organizations was money and weapons. They...
Until recently, few democratic nations other than the U.S. have provided elaborate security arrangements for heads of state and government, and most still do not. The fashion of "pressing the flesh" U.S.-style has spread to other countries. But the traditional reserve and respect toward leaders in cultures older than that of the U.S. still often hold sway, as do moral and social restraints on aberrant individual behavior. Besides, foreign laws' often permit authorities to be tougher, locking suspects up arbitrarily when they think trouble may be brewing...
...nearly nine months the congressional investigations of the Central Intelligence Agency have been conducted behind closed doors and, for the most part, in polite and gentlemanly fashion. Last week the probes were going on in public and turned into explosive affairs: 1) A Senate committee relentlessly exposed evidence that middle-level CIA officials had deliberately ignored then President Richard Nixon's order to destroy all toxins and other biological weapons in 1970, 2) a House committee pugnaciously threatened to go to court if President Gerald Ford did not turn over top-secret CIA documents...
...This uni-sex stuff--I was talking to some people in the clothes business about fashion and they told me that the areas of the body that are getting the most attention now aren't the breasts or crotch or reproductive areas. All these designers are concentrating on the bottom, you know? They're all accentuating your "boo-boo," you know? They're not concentrating on those areas that really differentiate a man and a woman. This is what I'm trying to get away from...