Word: manner
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...manifestly clear that in order to liberate language from all manner of sexist bias [Aug. 9], it should become mandatory that authors and journalists maneuver carefully through our manifold English vocabulary in every way necessary to free the written word from the menial menace of chauvinist prefixes and suffixes. Hopefully, the East Coast editorial establishment will respond to this manifesto, especially those who live and work in Manhattan. If they do not, the only alternative left open to the people is a nationwide personcott of the press...
...days and nights last week, Zulu impis (war parties), armed with spears, sticks, knives and knobkerries, the traditional Zulu clubs, were on the warpath once again, turning Soweto (pop. 1 million) into a city of terror. Forming an extended battle line in the manner of the Zulu warriors of old, they surged through the township chanting "Bulala! Bulala!" (Kill! Kill!). Thousands of blacks, particularly the young, attempted to flee. Many camped out in front of police stations seeking protection against the marauding Zulus. An African priest described how a 16-year-old schoolboy was chased into his church...
...days before he was chosen for the job, Senator Dole relaxed and chatted with a group of TIME editors and writers about the kind of man Ford should pick to run for Vice President. From his manner, Dole clearly indicated that he did not at all consider himself to be the likely selection, but the man he described began to sound remarkably like Bob Dole. Ford's Veep, he said, should be helpful in the farm states. These would be critically important for the G.O.P.'s chances, the states where the Democrats' Walter Mondale -a Minnesota populist...
...television, last impressions are all. For a dozen years now Eric Sevareid, 63, has been the Dr. Johnson of the two-minute essay on the CBS Evening News. With his "somewhat forbidding Scandinavian manner" (as he has described it) and "a restraint that spells stuffiness to a lot of people," he has delivered so many thousand editorials, sermonets and sit-down comedy routines that the unkind younger generation has begun to refer to him as Eric Everyside...
...would call, in a pinch, charm." But Parker becomes impatient with endless faculty meetings, such as five sessions to discuss whether or not to install a toilet in the watchman's booth. At Harvard, they typed her as basically hostile, "a female Mencken." Her Cambridge curt speaking manner bugs the Bennington artsies; her demeanor comes across as aloof, cynical and supercilious. She says she wants to be "queen of the hop on a larger scale...