Word: manner
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...FIND THE TRUTH in the strangest places, and when you do you often like to leave it there. About five years ago it attacked me on a high school playground, where I had gone to play basketball, hardly expecting to be accosted in such a manner. My opponent was a young Catholic priest with a tough hook shot and a knack for sneaking sermons in during games of one-on-one. "You know what we all have in common, don't you?" he asked during a break. "Sure, we're all soldiers of the Lord, hallelujah," I answered, tossing...
...roles of the institution and the individual--or if they do, they show no signs of recognizing them. This failing would be enough for many people to conclude that these men are beyond hope, that they will never begin to lead this university in a more humane, understanding manner--that they have sacrificed themselves to Harvard completely. I do not, however, believe this is true...
...power." Time and time again the sense of loneliness showed itself. The Soviet Union has no real allies in the world. Partnerships are forced, unreliable. On every horizon, Warnke concluded, the Soviets see some threat. They sit on their massive land, powerful and friendless, driving for acceptance in some manner, maybe by force, but maybe through treaties like SALT...
...been around since at least the 15th century B.C., when it was used in China as an anesthetic, a ritual potion, a condiment and an intoxicant. As it moved on to India and beyond, it was applied to all manner of miseries: allergies, rheumatism, falling hair, tapeworm, leprosy, gonorrhea, failing memory and dandruff. Today marijuana is being considered as a treatment to reduce eyeball pressure in glaucoma patients and to reduce vomiting by cancer patients receiving drug therapy...
...Only outside columnists are allowed to be noisy, querulous and opinionated. Even here, chain management usually dilutes the effect with a "spectrum" of opinion, in a look-no-hands neutrality between conservative, liberal and middle-of-the-road. Those among the columnists who are also in television develop a manner to go with the act-William F. Buckley Jr., arch and fastidious; James J. Kilpatrick, full of pretend bluster. When Kilpatrick takes the conservative side against Shana Alexander on CBS's 60 Minutes, their genial volleys are reminiscent of Robert Frost's definition of free verse-like playing...