Word: manner
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...trial court leave unresolved serious questions concerning operation of the special admissions program at Davis in 1973 and 1974," the amicus curiae brief by the United States Justice Department reads, "The trial court addressed its findings to the question whether the special admission program employed race in some manner; it did not address the question, which we believe is highly significant, of how race was used...
Particularly about death. The Thracians embraced it. Not just in the manner of all good soldiers--by exceptional courage in war--but also when "honor" did not seem to demand it. For example, a dead warrior's wives would vie madly with one another for the privilege of being the one "favored" by being killed so as to join the husband in death. Then, too, a segment of the population, the Getai, told an interesting legend about resurrection. It seems that the god Zalmoxis told man that he would enjoy eternal life after death. When Zalmoxis died he was resurrected...
...found Carter aloof and inflexible, disliked his early criticisms of Congress and resented his refusal to follow advice on how to handle the Senate. Though both men are products of the rural South, having made it to the top by dint of single-minded persistence, Carter's remote manner irritated Byrd. But after realizing that the majority leader's predictions of senatorial behavior were unerringly accurate, Carter began listening. He actively sought Byrd's advice on the Lance affair and accepted his judgment that the Budget Director had to go. Since the Lance ordeal, Carter and Byrd...
...London, along with a small army of fellow American misfits, took off for the Klondike. A year later he returned with only $4.50 worth of gold dust, but he had struck a mother lode in himself. He discovered he was a writer. After a few short stories in the manner of an Alaskan Rudyard Kipling, he scribbled a rattling yarn about a sled dog named Buck who, when his master was killed, turned wild in a snarling if romantic rejection of civilization. The Call of the Wild sold in the millions and made a myth of its mythmaker. Now, with...
...moth and the flame is an old device that Dillard uses in a fresh manner...