Word: manner
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Little Fear. French police had never heard of the Guevara Brigade before, but then they have not been very diligent in keeping track of such things. Until recently, operatives belonging to all manner of terrorist groups had wandered through Paris with little fear of trouble from les flics; the French government had been trying to maintain friendly relations with all Arab countries and their many, often violent, political factions and had hoped Paris would become a kind of fire-free zone that would be spared the terrorism troubling other European cities...
...another form. Both encounters are gracefully recorded in these memoirs. The longer and more compelling portion of the book is a testimony to the extraordinary courage, humor and joyful energy displayed by her sister until the very end. Depleted by cancer, Carmen decided to choose the time, place and manner of her death. "Cancer was going to kill her," Jessamyn recalls. "She planned to be asleep before that happened." Jessamyn kept watch. Until the moment the sleeping pills worked, she had doubts that the scheme would succeed. Neither sister had doubts about its morality...
...GERMAN CHARACTER. There is a certain weakness in our national character tending toward perfectionism. We even make our mistakes in a perfect manner-big mistakes, even crimes. This perfectionist weakness is not something that will evaporate this year or this decade. It's one of those characteristics that have a long period of life in the development of a nation. People also attribute to Germans a certain amount of discipline. This, I hope, will not quickly vanish...
...silence of their descent on the wicked ones is impossible to deny. The concluding shootout, in which the police and the army bumble up just in time to help, is also nicely handled, bloodshed and death being kept to a minimum instead of being dwelt upon in the modish manner...
...Iranians overextended themselves during the energy crisis; they were too eager to blindly imitate what we have in America," the consultant said, adding that the Iranian government has interfered "in some manner" with every Harvard project to date, including Segall...