Word: manner
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Chicago, a reporter for the weekly DeWitt County Observer (circ. 3,150) got a tip last October on the biggest story of her life. In a five-hour taped interview, a source spilled out a tale of corruption and brutality involving County Sheriff Keith V. Long, 57, whose gruff manner and thick downstate drawl seem right out of In the Heat of the Night. Trouble was, Reporter Charlene Hettinger, 39, and a colleague, Edith Brady, 22, kept running into brick walls as they tried to check the story out. The local townsfolk and officials were afraid to talk. Recalls Hettinger...
...further. But as it must to all stars, death eventually comes. How long a star lives depends on its mass. Generally, the more massive a star is, the shorter its life is. Stars with a mass significantly greater than that of the sun burn their fuel in a profligate manner and die young; a star ten times as massive as the sun, for example, burns 1,000 times faster and survives only 100 million years. The sun, which is some 5 billion years old, is only at the mid-point in life. Smaller stars, on the other hand...
...time our hopes are likely to be only gradually fulfilled. It is the essence of moral purposes that they appear absolute and universal. It is the essence of foreign policy to take into account the views of others who may also see their values in this manner...
...accords reached last January in Jamaica, an agreement they view as symptomatic of Giscard's shift to supranationalism. Beyond these skirmishes, the two men are, in the words of Historian Chariot, "condemned to get along." Chirac told Wierzynski, "I will not flail in all directions in an irresponsible manner. So long as there is no major change in the policies of France, so long as I am in the majority, I have no intention of provoking a crisis...
...lack of ethics among some members of the Freshmen Council warrants a re-examination of the Council's procedures and a reassessment of the Council's purpose. During the recent CRR referendum, not only did certain members act in a less than scrupulous manner, but they also tried to manipulate the opinions of the Freshmen class. Their behavior deviates from political maneuvering to a sheer lack of ethics, for it reverses the role between the Council and the constituency. Freshmen are no longer represented; they are led or misled by activists within the Council...