Word: manner
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...month by the U.S., the Viet Cong command told its men that "only when, we have successfully accomplished the general offensive and general uprising will the negotiations demonstrate their significance, which consists of creating conditions for the enemy to accept final defeat and withdraw in an 'honorable' manner." In the U.S., government policy planners have done hardly any staff work on the actual nuts-and-bolts details of a settlement cease-fire arrangements, means of inspection for troop withdrawals, stages of reducing the fighting. One reason for the lack stems from the realization that such wargaming would probably...
...Smith is slim, white-haired, countrified in speech, friendly in manner. He publishes the tiny (circ. 2,000) weekly Argus in the midstate town (pop. 7,400) of Robinson. He golfs and fishes, is a Rotarian and a former statewide vice president of the Elks. Fascinated newsmen describe him as the healer who wound up as Illinois Republican chairman in 1960 because, in a party ripped and bloodied with faction, "he was the only man nobody...
...strange manner in which the type is set up is quite striking. By running a clear plastic ruler, available at the Coop, under the lines across the back you will find that it makes fascinating reading: "Follow her down to a bridge by a stepping outside she is free. Then you may find peace of mind is good morning, Good morning." Many times the ruler will cut off some lines in the middle, while lying correctly under others. This forces you to skip columns as you read across on particular lines. I can't help feeling there is something significant...
Elders & Bearskins. Originally separate regiments, the Argylls and Sutherland Highlanders were both formed in the late 1700s, when the Crown was anxious to quell the defiant mood of Scotland that had resulted in the Jacobite rebellion. Their language and manner, from the beginning, made them a strange breed among Britain's tough foot soldiers. On their first foreign tour, at the Cape of Good Hope, the Sutherland regiment showed up with three elders of the kirk in their ranks, piously sent part of their pay home to the missionary society...
Died. Sir Alexander Cadogan, 83, British diplomat who was his country's first delegate to the United Nations; in London. Cool and detached, impeccable in dress and manner, Cadogan came to epitomize the "Foreign Office type" during his 42-year career, was a chief wartime adviser to Winston Churchill as head of the Foreign Office from 1938 to 1946, and with peace sounded a note of quiet logic amid all the squabbles at the infant...