Word: manner
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Harvard lost its seventh ECAC game of the year, but it lost in a manner befitting a competitive hockey team. A team challenging for first place might have also lost playing the tough, disciplined hockey the Crimson displayed. The highly ranked Eagles lost to the Golden Knights by the same score...
...video gave ammunition to both sides in the debate. "This was a very ill man dying a gentle, peaceful death in the time and manner he requested," says Faye Girsh, executive director of the Hemlock Society USA, a group that promotes physician help in dying. "I think we should see more people dying this way." Opponents saw it differently. "I certainly didn't see any compassion," says Ned McGrath, spokesman for the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Detroit. "His last moment on earth, and he's left in a room with Jack Kevorkian and a video camera. What a horrible...
...determine the appropriate retaliatory response." But, like your first cell phone, the system is a bit clunky. The GAO says recent tests show that "the National Command Authorities and the chief military commanders would be unable to communicate by voice in a timely and intelligible manner...
This is the basic cast of "Rugrats," one of Nickelodeon's most popular cartoons. In every episode, Tommy, Chuckie, Phil and Lil take on the rest of the world in fun adventures and tackle surprisingly adult issues in a manner which still leaves room for poop jokes. The great thing about the series is that while small children love the simplicity of the adventures, the show also throws in enough sophisticated humor for older viewers to have a good time watching...
...this mutedness should not imply that the performance was lightened-up to the detriment of the music in the same way that a caf‚ au lait manages to retain the integrity of a shot of espresso but just in a more subdued manner. The reward of this "quiet" performance was evident for all who listened carefully. The piano-playing abilities of renowned German pianist Christian Zacharias were both impressive and compelling. Especially touching was the way he handled the "Adagio." Zacharias's ability to juxtapose articulation with lyrical continuity was particularly shown in this movement. His fingers...