Word: manner
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...expects them to graze the ceiling. He turns the mere act of getting up from lunch into a dainty comic ballet. Ordered by his doctor to lose weight-half his weight-Morley adamantly refuses. "I have eaten my way to the top," he announces in his most imperious manner. "I am a work of art created by the finest chefs in Europe." Robert Morley is indeed a work of art. How nice to find him back in the movies, after too many years spent hawking plane tickets on the tube...
Torrens reported to Bok in his letter that alumni were upset at the "chiding, chastising, and frankly belittling manner with which you approached that faculty." Torrens wrote that the Alumni Council will not support fundraising for the school until "the dignity and respect" of the faculty is restored...
Winthrop was the first to speak before the Student Assembly during the election on Thursday and he impressed the group with his casual manner and articulate, confident style of speaking...
During a question-and-answer period, two issues served as barometers of the political attitudes of the candidates: whether the minority clause in the constitution should be deleted, and in what manner the assembly would oppose the University if it ignores student government...
...turn his father's relatively modest metals business into a global powerhouse. Setting himself up as a bullion dealer in South Africa, Engelhard beat restrictions on the export of newly mined gold by manufacturing solid gold art items--solid gold pulpit tops, dishes, bracelets. Once legally exported in this manner, they would be melted down into bullion again...