Word: manner
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Meanwhile, the new revolutionary government was acting in an arbitrary manner that seemed at variance with the Ayatullah's previously expressed democratic ideals. After hasty−and private−trials, four officials of the former regime, including the head of the Shah's hated SAVAK secret police and three generals, were executed by firing squad on charges of "torture, massacre of people, treason and earthly corruption...
...propensity for judging matters with a variable measure shows up in the game of Conjugation, which expresses the differing manner in which we treat ourselves, present company, and absent unfortunates...
...same old Danny Jiggetts. Big--oh, yes, above all else he always seemed so big--pleasant, carrying himself in the stately manner he always did, and symbolic of the now-tarnished excellence of Harvard sports...
...earliest years, Einstein showed no obvious sign of genius; he did not begin talking until the age of three. At Munich's Luitpold Gymnasium (high school), he bridled at the inflexible system of rote learning and the drill-sergeant manner of his teachers, annoying them with his rebellious attitude. Said one: "You will never amount to anything...
...visiting committee is scheduled to return later in the semester to present its written evaluation of the department. A committee of concentrators is also preparing a report of its own to try to "influence the visiting committee to see the department in a different manner than the Harvard Corporation sees it," Aaron A. Estis '80, an Afro-American Studies concentrator, said last week...