Word: mannered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Imre Nagy, General Pal Maleter and two other lesser leaders of the Hungarian revolt were in wanton defiance of public pledges (see below) given by the puppet Communist government maintained by Russian tanks in Budapest. The official announcement of the executions by the Hungarian government was made in a manner calculated to achieve maximum international publicity. It conceded that neither Nagy nor Maleter had confessed guilt, deliberately failed to give the date of their execution (which probably occurred only a few hours before issuance of the communique). Asked when the trial had taken place, Chief Prosecutor Geza Szenasi displayed what...
Ever since TV's first commercials, men in white have peered portentously into living rooms and assured viewers that all manner of products-patent medicines and dentifrices, cosmetics, drugs, and even cigarettes-are exactly what the doctor ordered. "For my patients, I recommend . . ." says one white-smocked huckster. As most viewers know but some do not, a genuine doctor or dentist is highly unlikely to risk his professional standing by engaging in such blatant commercialism. In perennial attacks on the phony pitchmen, the American Medical Association had long complained of these crass abuses. Last year the National Association...
...Noach Levinson, hero of John Mersey's bestselling novel, The Wall, who was supposed to have preserved archives of the Warsaw ghetto. In 1939 Ringelblum was safe in Switzerland, but he went back home to Warsaw to share the fate of his fellow Jews, and to record the manner of their end. Ringelblum and his friends recruited a kind of intelligence staff who, with fantastic dedication, took time off from the task of survival to write notes on what they saw and suffered...
...plump, inadequate little boy and the domineering sister live on to play out their roles in real castles. Eustace is a birthright snob, smart, in his way, and nice to old ladies. One of them is a rich Miss Fothergill who-with solid cash though otherwise in the manner of Dickens' Miss Havisham in Great Expectations [ -becomes little Eustace's patroness...
...week when the National Assembly, in a characteristic bit of legislative haggling, attempted to tie the general's hands by proposing that if he wanted to change the French constitution, he would have to have Assembly approval before his plan could be submitted to popular referendum. The manner in which De Gaulle beat off this threat-he rushed over to the Assembly and threatened to resign on the spot-was out of his old bag of tricks. He got his powers at 12:30 a.m., and by a 350 to 163 vote. Since this was a three-fifths majority...