Word: manner
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Allen wrote the article, as the title suggests, in an amusing manner, filled with anecdotes of actual embezzlement cases and tips to possible embezzlers. These cases in Allen's article merely attempt to alert the non-computer-oriented executives to computer techniques, he said...
...break in the signing of the partnership, removed all the toilet seats from the buildings and sold them for fifty dollars. But, asked my mother's cousin, what will the poor people who live there do without toilet seats? "Let us," said Jake, "approach your question in a practical manner. I ask you to accompany me now to the bathroom, where I will explode my bowels in the manner of the impoverished and you will see for yourself how it is done." As he reached for her hand my constantly ailing cousin began to cry in long, high sounds...
...human life. So "as soon as war is declared, they promise great rewards to anyone who will kill the enemy's king, and smaller (but still very great) rewards for killing those whom they regard as most responsible after the king for plotting aggression against them . . . Though this manner of waging war . . . may seem like cruel villainy . . . it is considered by the Utopians as a wise and praiseworthy policy, since it enables them to wage great wars without any battle at all. They even think themselves humane and merciful, because by the death of a few bad men they...
...William Douglas, William Brennan and Thurgood Marshall-remain in general agreement. And, to be sure, they are still often in the minority. The Wall Street Journal, for instance, has detected a majority trend toward favoring business, partly because of a desire to cut the glut of cases challenging all manner of commercial activity...
...Oriental theater provides a traditional counterpart. In the Kabuki theater of Japan not only is it obligatory to have a group of geza of musicians, just off stage, to simulate conventional sounds on a host of percussion instruments, but there are also special stagehands, called Kurogo, who render all manner of assistance to the actors in full view of the audience. These Kurogo are dressed and veiled in black, to indicate that we are to pretend they are invisible...