Word: manner
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Generations of medical men, says the B.M.J., have suggested just about every possible explanation. The baby has been underfed or overfed. The formula was too hot, too cold, too frequent, too infrequent, too weak, too strong, or it contained too much fat, carbohydrate or protein. All manner of diseases have been indicted. One writer suggested that colic comes from "bouncing the baby" too much. Another said that it is due to the father's smoking when he gets home, and a third thought that crybabies are simply malingering, that they are actually in less pain than they pretend. Many...
Keeping this in mind, one is reimpressed with the need to open wider the doors of higher education. Only as long as we educate ourselves and our children in as broad a manner as possible are we assured that a "Mao revolution" will not sweep over us, driving whatever man has accomplished of worth into oblivion...
...that "if a Catholic boy came to me, or a Protestant boy came to me, saying he represented a certain group of prisoners and refused to give me their names, he would be treated the same way." The court, Button argued, was inviting "a deluge of lawsuits involving the manner in which prisoners are treated and confined in prisons throughout this judicial circuit...
...prevent emboli (traveling blood clots) from passing into the lungs through the vena cava, the body's largest vein. He simply has the staples turned at right angles to form a filter which can be implanted in the vein swiftly and easily. Used in this manner, the new machines have already graduated from stitchwork repairs to performing some of the most important stages of surgery...
...judgment that his sometimes awed, often contemptuous contemporaries were never able to make. Partly it was because his physical presence was so overwhelming. He was a strutting cockatoo of a man, resplendently tailored, grey hair swept up into a crest, wit as sharp as a honed spur, manner as crude as a clod. Fascinated by the combination of the baroque and the bumptious of the man, Rebecca West once wondered if it would not be better to judge Bennett as a character rather than an author. "He could not be compared properly with Fielding, or Dickens, or Balzac," she said...