Word: mannered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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However well one might have been prepared for Saturday night's frustrating display, it is always disappointing to see a superior team lose in the manner that the varsity lost to B.C. The Crimson, rallying after a shockingly bad start, dominated play for the better part of the evening. Its plays were much more organized than were those of B.C., but the varsity showed its almost traditional weakness of being unable to finish off a scoring play...
...nearly 25,000 communes; their membership, at least on paper, comprised more than 90% of China's peasantry. The movement is now spreading to the cities. At Yangchuan coal mine in Shansi province, where more than 28,000 miners and their families formerly lived in "an unorganized, undisciplined manner." i.e., scattered around as they chose, workers have now been assigned to living quarters according to their work areas and shifts; according to Peking's People's Daily, "the head of a mine pit is simultaneously company commander of the militia and head of a row of rooms...
...Joint Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Foreign Office, the third top Foreign Office post. Both were charged with "committing an act of gross indecency with another male person" in St. James Park, next to the government offices in Whitehall. Additionally, they were accused of "behaving in a manner reasonably likely to offend against public decency, contrary to the St. James and Green Parks' regulations." The Foreign Office had suffered no such embarrassing accusation since the days of Burgess and Maclean...
This sequence gives an example of the manner in which the student's mental responses are guided and aimed at a particular end in each "lesson." The more cogently selected and clearly connected each frame in the series is, the more effective the program of the machine in instilling the intended knowledge...
...before the student moves on." And perhaps most importantly, the machine, like a good tutor, substantiates and corroborates right answers and quickly points out and corrects wrong ones--"using this immediate feedback not only to shape his behavior most efficiently but to maintain it in strength in a manner which the layman would describe as 'holding the student's interest...