Word: manner
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...come out with a strong enough attack plan. He's too honest to tell people he will cut property taxes by $500 million; he points out that prisons are going to get awfully full if you just try and lock everyone up for life. In his typically father-like manner, Hatch tries to explain to King about such things as prison reforms and rehabilitation, but instead he comes off sounding like a softie who doesn't know how to handle problems...
Despite the complications, women have served, in some manner, with the U.S. armed forces from the earliest days of the Republic. Molly Pitcher, who was said to have snatched up and continued firing her disabled husband's musket during the Battle of Monmouth, was a legendary heroine of the Revolution. Some 350,000 of the 16 million armed forces mobilized during World War II were women. They served as airplane mechanics, pilots ferrying bombers, parachute riggers and gunnery instructors, as well as in the more "traditional" roles of nursing and administration. In 1948, however, the Women's Armed...
...Kennedy '54 (D-Mass.), our speaker was heard by most of the audience. And for this we are glad; our purpose is not simply to protest, but to get our message across to as many people as possible. But we still think it is important that the reprehensible manner in which University officials conducted themselves should be known to the entire community. These officials may charge that revealing the details of the negotiations constitutes "negotiating in bad faith;" this hardly needs a response. They may also charge that we are becoming too personal in our protests and in letters such...
...random pause, gesture, intonation in his material is carefully practiced and structured to contribute to the whole; it is the only way the nervous young Allen could overcome his fear of failure. That habit of maintaining total control stayed with him through his career. As for the easygoing, casual manner he suggests is the way he produces comedy, that too should be taken with a carton of salt, since Allen is still a troubled, somewhat tormented man. Many of his earlier self-mocking jokes had a fine edge of painful truth to them--when, for instance, he is humiliated...
...authors who write long passages of dialogue without identifying who is speaking, so one must count back the lines to find out who said what. In a couple of places in Six of One, Brown loses track herself, and has people talking to themselves in a most unlikely manner. This should have been caught before the book went to press...