Word: manner
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Having proved his point, Hoover concluded by condemning the Negro press generally for "its lack of verse structure and grammar and its insolently offensive and defiant manner." To remedy the situation, he urged immediate passage of a national anti-sedition law. In 1919 people took him seriously, and Congress nearly complied. We have come a long way since then. This January President Johnson can commemorate our progress by "granting" Mr. Hoover a retirement long overdue and fully earned...
...founder and chief of staff of Atlanta's Ponce de Leon Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat In firmary, who in the early 1940s came to the rescue of mothers everywhere by pioneering the use of tiny magnets to retrieve from the throats, stomachs and lungs of children all manner of metal objects previously removed by surgery or not at all; of a stroke; in Atlanta...
...Negro named Woodman J. Collins was convicted and sentenced to death for the "aggravated rape" of a white woman in Louisiana's Jefferson Davis Parish. On appeal, Collins' lawyer attacked the manner in which the parish impaneled the grand jury that indicted Collins. The parish is roughly one-third Negro, and, to make the grand jury "reasonably representative," the jury commission carefully placed six Negroes on a list of 20 veniremen. From those were drawn twelve grand jurors, including five Negroes. Despite this seeming fairness, argued his lawyer, the impaneling process denied Collins' right to equal protection...
...serious scenes almost all the actors seem slightly unnatural. Chekhov should be played as plainly as possible. Because of the suggestiveness of the dialogue, it is most effective when spoken in an ordinary unaffected manner. Unfortunately, the actors try so hard to wring emotion out of crucial scenes that they kill many of their lines...
Nemec and Bystricky believe that when two caulobacters cling together in this manner they are, in effect, mating -exchanging genetic material through their stalks. If the conjugating caulobacters belong to strains with different hereditary endowment, both may be improved by the swap. This is the great advantage of sexuality for any form of life; it permits faster evolution...