Word: manner
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...well-defined pecking order, Carter plans to give his top half-dozen assistants free access to the Oval Office. If that proves to be too inefficient, the betting is that Jordan or Lipshutz will emerge as the head man. In his favor, Lipshutz has his years, his avuncular manner and his legal savvy. He will preside over the morning staff meetings...
...best witness. She told the jurors that "Spider and I loved each other very much," an assertion that contradicted local gossip that their relationship was on the skids. The word was that Sabich had ordered Longet to leave because he was tired of her jealous, inhibiting manner. Prosecutor Anderson claimed to have a witness whom Spider had bet $100 that Longet would be gone by April, but he never produced...
Retribution came during the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution of 1966-69. Teng was accused of many of the sins now attributed to Chiang Ch'ing. Denounced for his addiction to bridge, mah-jongg and all manner of high living, Teng was driven through the streets wearing a dunce cap while hordes of Red Guards screamed curses at him. He was stripped of his party posts, and disappeared for seven years...
Jimmy Carter says, "Rosalynn is an almost equal extension of me." There is the same soft manner superimposed over gritty determination, the same dedication to God and hard work, the same self-confidence self-taught. It disturbs her that Jimmy Carter is still so little understood. "As I look back on it, it really is amazing that he could win-that we could win. People knew Ford, and he was comfortable. But they really did not know who Jimmy Carter was. They just took him on faith...
More than anything else, however, Schumacher is practical. Whether discussing subsistence agriculture in his chapter "Two Million Villages," or the principles of big business organization, he treats topics often approached by fantasy-prone utopia-builders in a convincing, down-to-earth manner...