Word: mannered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...beck of his pressagents any time of day or night. Seasoned politicos of both parties swallowed nervously every time he dropped a new political name. And behind the guarded gates of the White House, the President's staff read the news tickers in continuing wonderment to see what manner of man this was for whom Staff Chief Adams had vouched as a close personal friend...
...trip to Paris was one more indication of a change in his own personal fortunes. In his first year in office, after inheriting Sir Anthony Eden's debacle at Suez, he was regarded by many as a stopgap Prime Minister, grabbed out of the Edwardian era. His debonair manner annoyed as many as it pleased. Three months ago, scarcely a Tory could be found who looked upon his party's future with anything but dread. Insiders respected Macmillan's parliamentary skill, but the image did not get over to the country. Now the British press is full...
...large populations of fruit flies, a few are apt to be naturally defective, with stunted wings or misshapen limbs. In some cases these defects are inherited in a Mendelian manner, like the color of Mendel's flowers. Some traits are dominant, others recessive. They are caused by mutations (damaged genes) in the flies' chromosomes (they have only four pairs), and Morgan's method was to study every possible way that mutations could be passed from generation to generation...
...Such perseverence was not necessary. On the 299th try they found an ailing spore that needed only vitamin B-6 (pyridoxine) to make it grow lustily. When it had mated with a normal mold, it transmitted its need for vitamin B-6 to its descendants in the proper Mendelian manner for a single mutated gene...
...suspension, imposed by the stewards for his driving in an earlier Roosevelt race. Miller had pulled back at the halfway mark, presumably to find a hole along the rail. There was no hole. He came in last, was promptly set down for driving "in a manner inconsistent with an attempt...