Word: manner
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...political leader, abjured his power in the cause of world peace; Martin Luther King, the nation's most ardent exponent of nonviolent social reform, was violently removed in an act of outrage that at first blush seemed to threaten the onslaught of race war. Yet each in his manner of de parture achieved a stature that neither had ever previously attained. King became the canonized leader of his people's cause; Johnson, about to surrender his political life, gained an unprecedented opportunity to work for accord between the races, within the nation as a whole...
...center. Now you take it or leave it." Little concern was shown for the dignity of individuals. Patients had to wait in line to see a doctor who might or might not be the same one as last time. Examinations might be carried out in an impersonal manner that seemed to indicate to the patient that the system regarded him as just another burden. It was that kind of attitude that turned the poor to the quacks who at least remembered their names and soothed their emotional if not their physical ills...
Dubious as it sounds, the Globe did just that. If you search closely through. editorials of 1953, you find several cautiously couched barbs at the manner in which the McCarthy hearings were conducted. The strongest editorial asks, "Is it just, or indeed possible, to make our diplomatists the laughing stock of the world by forays among them which resemble a chapter in Dick Tracy?" On the whole, though, editorial writer Don Willard accurately sums up the Globe's McCarthy record as "cowardly...
With remarkable consistency, the U.S. press corps has risen in indignation against the candidacy of Bobby Kennedy. Even those who have come to his defense have demonstrated a conspicuous lack of enthusiasm. Of those newspapers and columnists who have commented, the great majority object both to the manner in which he entered the presidential race and his subsequent campaigning. Their tone ranges from outrage to contempt to a kind of weary resignation, as if to say, "Well, that's politics...
...involves a "rock or whirlpool" choice. "Where a reward is held out to an individual for the waiver of a constitutional right," wrote Judge Harold Tyler, "or a greater threat posed for choosing to assert it, any waiver may be said to have been extracted in an impermissible manner." The judges ruled unconstitutional that part of the act that imposes a "Hobson's choice." Instead, the boy may choose to be treated as a juvenile, and may have a jury trial-"if he so desires...