Word: manner
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...students say, however, that their effectiveness is severely limited by a lack of support from the Admissions Office. The staff has acted repeatedly in less than a supportive manner, they...
...propaganda war was just as intense. Phnom-Penh accused its neighbors in Viet Nam of destroying Cambodian rubber plantations, burning forests, seizing cattle and poultry, even "raping and killing our women in crueler manner than the Thieu-Ky and South Korean mercenary troops of the past." Hanoi charged that Cambodia's Khmer Rouge guerrillas had made incursions into Viet Nam and had looted and sacked its pagodas, schools and hospitals. Far worse, it accused the guerrillas of "raping, tearing fetuses from mothers' wombs, disemboweling adults and burning children alive." Were it not for the fact that thousands...
...Dallas Cowboys were put together in the same manner, with a loan officer's eye for the sure, steady return and an actuary's fetish for minutiae. Formed the same year as the Broncos, the Cowboys have been, over the past 18 seasons, the most successful team in football. Dallas devised a computerized scouting system that catalogued the requirements of the sport in fractions of inches and split seconds. The Cowboys have turned up blue-chip players with clockwork regularity, including prospects found in fields foreign to the gridiron. Track stars, basketball players ?not to mention the occasional Heisman...
...only our fate but our business to lose innocence, and once we have lost that it is futile to attempt a picnic in Eden." Her style was difficult and sometimes, in its defiance of syntax and even grammar, infuriating. In 1955 Punch effectively parodied the Bowen manner: "She lit the sodden stub of last night's fag and took a sip of gin and meth to cut, as she'd have put it, the phlegm." Bowen knew that her style was odd and that it limited her popular appeal. But her manner of writing faithfully reflected the intense...
Rosovsky said, however, that he is "determined to balance the budget," which he can do only if the instructional fund is not depleted in this manner...