Word: manner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Harry Truman himself was not the least dismayed by congressional objections. In his best "who-me?" manner, the President told his press conference that he wasn't at all concerned with whether he got all the blank-check power the bill gave him. He would be delighted if Congress worked out such details to suit itself...
...statement, he told Mrs. Roosevelt, and he would like her to read it before it was released. "In the midst of the great confusion and the many regrettable misunderstandings and misinterpretations," he wanted to make the Roman Catholic position clear. This time the sting and heat of his early manner was gone...
...Every bullet, every item, has been planned because of a particular need for this somewhere. If you cut it, you will not achieve some vital purpose." So Secretary of State Dean Acheson told the House Foreign Affairs Committee last week in his precise and impressive manner...
...Plan. Few legislators disputed the need for military aid; but many were critical of the manner, timing, and amount. Harry Truman had asked for virtually a free hand to allocate arms and money wherever and whenever he thought they were needed, on whatever terms he chose. Administration spokesmen admitted that they could not estimate accurately how long the program might run, or how much it would ultimately cost...
...Western Reserve often bogs down with guidebook-like recitations about individual towns. But it perks up nicely when it dips into yellowing newspapers and diaries for authentic glimpses of life in the Ohio manner...