Word: manner
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Neat & Unstarved. The charm and the kindness escape some people entirely. In India, secretaries were sometimes reduced to tears by his imperious manner, and a number of embassy staffers winced under his highhandedness...
Ferocious Lion. Another ton or two is accounted for by Bodies Beautiful Gloria Roeder and Ed Allen, who work in much the same manner as LaLanne. Gloria, 43, fights "saddlebag thighs" and "dowager's hump" with such exercises as Double Hip Spanks, Thigh Thumps, Chin-to-Knee Bounces and the Pectoral Fling. For "viewer identification," she often has her six daughters, ages ten to 20, exercise along with her. Allen, 39, perhaps to compensate for a double chin, swathes his 197 Ibs. in skin-tight polo shirts and stretch pants, and dresses down his wavy locks with hair spray...
...History Department, his sharp eye for graduate students and his awesome reputation among history departments around the world made him invaluable. For students, his informal yet dignified manner, his understated sense of humor, and his kindness exemplified Harvard at its best. Though a man of style and wit, Professor Owen was not flamboyant; he left Winthrop House with a quiet sense of pride, and he took the mild, subdued course in departmental affairs...
Parker says that "Elder did not exert any pressure" for a particular manner of dealing with Feintuch. "He mentioned it, and we mentioned it, and he just wanted to know if this was the position of the Council...
...much gilding for the lily was the diagnosis-too much manner for the matter. "I had wanted it to be a simple thing," said Capote. This year, he decided to try it that way, at the 299-capacity Theater de Lys. "This is going to be the show we meant to present," said Truman. "If I'm going to lose, I want to lose...