Word: manner
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...August to defuse the kind of political explosions that Aptheker & Co. cherish. His specific concern is the hundred or so students, plus many nonstudents drawn by Berkeley's reputation as a swinging place for protest, who make and dominate the chaos. Heyns aims, by "controlling time, place and manner," to "assimilate political activity into the normal life of the university"-that is, play it down and play up academic effort...
...treasure cross his principality's boundaries or risk an adverse verdict. When negotiations broke down, the prince's art dealer, Josef Farago, issued a categorical denial: "The prince would not dream of selling the Leonardo." As for the prince, he was, as one to the manner born, off hunting in Austria. Does this mean that Ginevra del Bend will never leave Liechtenstein? Said a Liechtensteinian noble last week: "Eventually some fool may offer $10 million, and then...
Strawberries for Cash. In appearance and manner, Wallace was the prototypical Midwesterner. From the rebellious shock of hair to the scuffed shoes, he looked like the perennial farm boy. Yet behind the craggy, Scotch-Irish face and diffident blue eyes lurked a bewildering blend of intellectual acumen and messianic wrongheadedness...
Crime & Punishment. There is an eleven-year gap in the legend-until 1836, when a tall stranger with a flowing beard and erect military bearing rode into the Siberian outpost of Krasnoufimsk on a white horse. He carried his right hand on his hip in the manner of the late Czar; he spoke fluent French and a kind of Russian that was half church-Slavic, half Latin; he carried an icon with the initials A.I. The peasants began to wonder if this might not be Alexander the Blessed. When the stranger, who gave his name as Fyodor Kuzmich but could...
...ignited a massive charge of gunpowder and demolished Kirk o'Field, a royal residence where Lord Darnley, Mary's dissolute young husband, lay recovering from a severe case of pox that most likely was secondary syphilis. But Darnley was not a victim of the blast. In some manner, which has always bemused and tantalized historians, he and a servant got away to a nearby garden, where they were waylaid and strangled...