Word: manner
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Even for Saigon, a city that has seen all manner of demonstrations, it was an unusual protest. Into Workers Union Headquarters last week marched 200 perfumed professionals, representatives of the 50,000 bar girls and taxi dancers who make their living by catering to the loneliness of the American G.I. They were distressed by the threat of the reform-minded government of Nguyen Van Thieu to close down saigon's 160 cabarets and 47 dance halls. Unless their livelihoods were protected, they said, they would take to the streets like the Buddhists in opposition to the government...
...result, after one day of a nonjury trial last week, Judge Merle Lansden reluctantly barred the boy's confession and found him not guilty. "Before a confession is to be accepted when a person is in custody or his freedom of action is limited in any significant manner, he must be warned," said the judge. Mention of "the words lie detector" indicated "that the finger of suspicion was moving toward Bruce...
...times his life seemed to belong as much to the picturesque world of fiction as did the manner of his death. We get only glimpses of Jarrell in the book of memorials. None of the writers attempt a miniature biography, but the anecdotes all add to the same picture of paradoxical man, warm to those he respected, yet always distant enough to be awe-inspiring...
...would like to urge in the most earnest possible fashion that there be no effort by anyone, students in particular, to identify and oppose in any manner the individual participation by Faculty members in confidential or secret tasks of the government. There is a radical difference between this varied and individual work and the classified contracts for weapons development which I had in mind. This individual work covers a wide range of matters and much, or most, has no bearing on military activity. Most of it is the work of those Faculty members with the strongest instinct for public service...
...food and water supply, is already well advanced, and at first glance would seem promising in this respect. But the pollution problem has been so widely publicized in recent years that it seems highly improbable that a program of deliberate environmental poisoning could be implemented in a politically acceptable manner...