Word: manner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...situation it is difficult to see how the President's program would accomplish its aims. What will United States military force be able to achieve if, for example, Italy actually elects a government controlled by Communists? Will we fight? If we determine to act in this manner hope for peace will in effect vanish. One will wonder if we have done any line-drawing or bluff-calling...
...plans for a new organization, which it chooses to call "The Crimson Key Society." Ideas of setting up some sort of welcoming committee for visiting athletes and other worthies began to pop up back during the late lamented football season. So, in its usual thorough but plodding manner, the Council gathered together a four-man committee, which worked long and hard for more than a month and finally produced a constitution for the projected Crimron Key, which needs only Dean's Office approval to go into immediate operation...
...Wright Brothers endeavored to take off in the manner you describe [TIME, Feb. 9], they would still be sitting on their skids at Kitty Hawk. ... It was quite impossible for a 12 h.p. motor to lift that plane off the ground. It was launched by a catapult, which consisted of a heavy weight hoisted to the top of a triangular tower and attached by ropes and pulleys to the front of a monorail car running on a wooden track. The plane was balanced on the car, and as the engine revved up, the weight was released. The car hurtled down...
...habit much admired by early-rising Mr. Truman-and stays late. One of the chief reasons for Clifford's rise has been his methodical practice of meticulously copying down the thoughts of the various men around the President, carefully sorting them out and then presenting them in a manner which suits Harry Truman to a T. As Mrs. Clifford proudly expresses it: "Clark has put himself on the same wave length with Mr. Truman." As a more critical observer put it: "He has succeeded perfectly in articulating the mediocrity of the Truman Administration...
...feet. This means, with out any doubt, that the U.S. lend us large and prolonged help in the economic field [but, more than that], it is clear that their support should be spread at the same time to the field of defense in as precise and explicit a manner as the Marshall Plan does on credit and imports...