Word: manner
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Recognition came late for Sculptor David Smith, and neither his manner, often truculent, nor his medium - gigantic welded iron and steel objects -did much to hasten his fame. Awarded a $1,000 prize at the 1961 Carnegie International, he refused the money, suggested that it be used by the museum to buy some art. "Sculpture has been a whore for many ages," he would...
...1940s as part of his vendetta against the Roosevelts. In The Crisis of the Old Order, Arthur Schlesinger Jr. wrote that "Eleanor may have sensed something" about her husband's "friendly affection" for Lucy, whom Schlesinger described as "a sweet, womanly person, somewhat old-fashioned in manner but gay and outgoing." Finally, Daniels himself, in his 1954 book The End of Innocence, told of "rumors" involving the pair. But it remained for Daniels' new book to squarely designate Lucy as F.D.R.'s other love...
Dealing as they must with all manner of rogues and reprobates, British bobbies figure they have at least one thing going for them: they never carry firearms in the course of ordinary duty. The theory is that thugs are less inclined to pack a gun themselves if they know the cops will not shoot. Though only 24 British policemen have been killed in the last 55 years, the tacit truce between cops and crooks is occasionally shattered-as in the fatal shooting of three policemen last week on a London street...
...births were up from the daily average of eleven to an alltime high of 28. Checking other New York hospitals, Tolchin discovered the same general pattern. Bellevue reported 50% more births, Bronx Municipal 100%, St. Luke's 200% . Tolchin thereupon reported his sprightly scoop in the best deadpan manner-through the mouths of others...
...Contractors, loan sharks, insurance brokers, job seekers and a variety of multiple-purpose grifters contribute money in the manner of architects in the expectation that if their man is elected he will assist them in practicing their particular art, on behalf of and at the expense of, the people of Massachusetts," Galbraith wrote in the Boston Globe. The article, which ran as a banner story on page one of yesterday's morning edition, had been requested by the newspaper...