Word: manner
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Mantle could also bunt a team to death, because he was that rarest of all ballplayers, a switch-hitting slugger who could outsprint every big man in the league and most of the little men. That combination, plus his aw-shucks, farm-boy manner, made Mighty Mick an instant folk hero. In his first 14 seasons, he led the Yankees to a remarkable twelve pennant victories, won the Most Valuable Player award three times and the triple crown once, in 1956, when he batted .353, slammed 52 home runs and drove in 130 runs. His lifetime mark of 536 homers...
...view proved prophetic. Goldman's diplomatic effort came to total disaster at the famous June 1965 White House Festival of the Arts. Incensed by then about the Viet Nam war and always snobbishly intolerant of the presidential manner, a number of intellectuals noisily stayed away. Among those who did come, one guest-New York Critic Dwight Macdonald-cheekily circulated an anti-Johnson petition at the gathering. Another, John Hersey, chose to read pointed excerpts from his book Hiroshima despite fierce White House displeasure ("The President and I," said Mrs. Johnson, "do not want this man to come here...
White disadvantaged children are being imprinted in the same manner in some studies. Ethnic and religious backgrounds have not been treated...
...where it's due: to the Mayo Clinic for its group practice. Without its surgical and medical care, I would be long dead, left to the caprice of the medical societies of New York and Pennsylvania, with all their universities. They could take a few lessons in bedside manner from the plainsmen...
These men, mostly young and self-made, have little regard for established rules or customs. They are reshaping business in a manner that deeply affects not only owners and managers but millions of stockholders and employees as well. In time, their expanding takeovers of hundreds of companies could transform the entire structure of the U.S. economy. Already, they have stirred intense debate among businessmen and Government officials alike: Are their actions a threat or a boon to U.S. business...