Word: manner
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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McNamara's troubles are partly a matter of manner. Though he is more gracious in testifying than he once was, and has even taken to asking key congressional military committeemen to the Pentagon for briefing breakfasts, the Secretary has consistently all but ignored the Armed Services Committees of both houses when it comes to making crucial military decisions. As House Minority Whip Leslie Arends protested last week: "Secretary McNamara seldom asks advice, and listens only when he asks. I am constrained to ask: 'Upon what meat does this, our Caesar, feed that he is grown so great...
...throughout German-occupied Europe. This year the memory of the dead was clouded by a controversy that, nearly a quarter of a century later, still raises deep and bitter passions. More than half of the 12 million who died in concentration camps were Jews-and both the fact and manner of their deaths have since haunted their fellow Jews around the world. In a new book, Treblinka, a French Jew named Jean-François Steiner, 28, has raised a storm in France by suggesting that many of them died because they were too cowardly to fight back...
...their fate, says that "death does not have for the Jew the definitive character that it has in general for other men." Part of the Jewish inaction, he suggests, was due to "a speculative intelligence, which sometimes loses contact with reality. Jewish intelligence attaches almost more importance to the manner of posing a problem and of resolving it than to the solution itself...
Diamond Jim Brady, the big, bluff New York Irishman whose stomach was as expansive as his manner, is enshrined in American folklore as one of the truly great spenders of the Gilded Nineties. He spangled himself with outsize diamonds, usually began a twelve-course meal with a gallon of orange juice, hosted lavish dinners where champagne corks were gathered up in laundry baskets. What is not so well known is that Brady was one of the founding fathers of expense-account entertaining. He shrewdly courted publicity because he felt that it was an asset in his job as a railroad...
...sphere of quartz coated with niobium, a metal that becomes a superconductor and shows no resistance to electric current when cooled to extremely low temperatures. The sphere will be placed inside an evacuated quartz shell, also coated with niobium, and suspended in an electrostatic field. Suspending it in this manner will allow it to spin in a near-perfect vacuum without touching anything; it will be free from all friction. The gyroscope container will be kept in a bath of liquid helium at a temperature of-452°F. to make the niobium coating superconducting. In this supercooled state...