Word: manner
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Taft name obviously packs a potent political punch in the state that sent Bob Jr.'s grandfather, William Howard Taft, to the presidency and established his father in the Senate as the nation's "Mr. Republican." But beyond that, "young" Bob, in his cool, deliberate manner, has carefully cultivated a reputation of his own as a constructive legislator in the Ohio house of representatives and as a one-term member of Congress. Many Republicans see Taft, 47, as one of the party's most likely new national leaders...
...always, most of the polls lavished praise on "this heartwarming teacher," though one sourzouled individual carped about Alfred's "excessively heartwarming manner...
...From his manner it seemed very plausible that this bulky but graceful young Negro man--Dartmouth graduate, social worker, son of a middle-class Harlem school teacher--should be challenging Speaker of the House John McCormack for his seat from the Ninth Congressional District...
...contest has the makings of a race as lopsided as Stuart Hughes's campaign against Ted Kennedy. Day has a magnetic manner and a good program of social reform working for him. The Ninth also holds more than half of the state's Negro population. But Negroes account for ony 12.8 percent of the District's voters. McCormack's is the most Irish of all American districts, with first or second generation immigrants alone accounting for 11.6 percent of the population. Well over 50 percent are descendents of the 19th century deluge...
...letter Lee also said that while at the Library dedication, "I might take advantage of my present right to express opinion in such a manner that it would not only be embarrassing to Mr. Galbraith but to everyone present...