Word: manly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...somehow Harry Truman sounded a little like a man who was damned if he was going to come down with the flu, even though he already had the sniffles. This week, in the longer, drier sentences of his midyear economic report to Congress, the President frankly admitted that there were some reasons for feeling bearish...
...florid man with the brush haircut rose, walked over to the jury box and grasped the rail with both hands. His manner was cozy. "We've all been here a long time," he confided, "and I feel I have come to know you well." Then he began buttering up: "In this sanctuary of justice, a holy place, to me second only to a church, I see you not as just twelve ladies and gentlemen. I see you strong, resolute and courageous soldiers of justice...
Lawyer Lloyd Paul Stryker, who commands some of the highest fees in the business (up to $75,000 a case), was going into his big act: the summation for the defense in the perjury trial of Alger Hiss, onetime bright young man of the State Department...
...Letter "G." The defense had loftily announced that it was going to win not only acquittal but vindication in the trial. But Stryker sounded like a man trying not so much to vindicate his client as to get him off. He fled from accusing facts, or brushed them off with a sneer. Seemingly counting on sheer noise to drown out doubts, he assaulted the jury with windblown oratory...
...Conditions found, on occasion, in the cysts and hernias of Western man...