Word: manner
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sure that this isn't the case, it is hardly a cuase for alarm. If the government and people of the United States decided that Nicaragua was a menace to our security, it would be folly for us not to defend ourselves. In the same manner, Israel would be justified in taking military action if Col. Khaddafy developed nuclear weapons. The issue is not one of law, involving guilt or innocence, but one of survival. The Sandinistas made their choice long ago, and they decided not to respect conventions of international behavior. They gambled that the U.S. would...
...year veteran, is majority whip: his opinions tend to be plain and angrily expressed. "I've got a temper," he confesses, "and I know how to use it!" The New Right would pick McClure, a Senator since 1973, who shares their ultraconservatism but not their uncompromising manner. Domenici, re-elected to his third Senate term, is fair-minded and sincere in the Baker fashion. As Budget Committee chairman, he has shown great forbearance. But he is the darkest horse. Says one Senator: "I don't think Pete's got a chance...
Georga says to her knowledge no such forum took place at Loma Linda. "No such novel operation should happen in a suprise manner as it did there," she says...
...Cleveland Browns, a commentary on the quality of competition then and now. His John Carroll University classmate Carl Taseff made the cab squad. "Nice tackle, Taseff," Paul Brown observed at practice one day. "The name is Shula," he replied squarely, like his jaw, like everything about him, in a manner that chilled the veterans. But it actually warmed Brown, who was attracted to the twinkle in this young man's eye, which begins to describe Shula's instant affection for Dan Marino...
...together by chains of patronage running vertically through the classes-that enabled Stubbs to paint his admirably varied theater of land work, from haymakers to grooms, trainers and jockeys, without the least sign of overt condescension. Across the Channel, patrons liked pictures of drunken, vomiting peasants in the Dutch manner: a class zoo. Not in England, where Stubbs painted the cult of the horse with rapt attention, as a ritual focus of many skills and several mutually dependent classes...