Word: mannered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...second occurred in 1959 when the Defense Minister P'eng Te-huai was deposed. While it is true that a few followers of Kao and P'eng were ousted, these purges only temporarily jarred the solidarity of the Maoist leadership and clearly did not convince the nation in the manner of the Stalin purges of the thirties...
...original Control Commission seemed to be mainly a clearing house for internal Party disciplinary measures. But then in 1962 the Party tripled the size of the Commission with some of the new members drawn from the Party Central Committee. Moreover, the Control Commission was now organized in such a manner that about half of its members were working in the provinces, thereby providing closer links between the top leaders in Peking and the outlying provinces...
...Black Gown. Was Garrison onto something? It was all but impossible to tell. His sleuths, like small boys overturning a rock in a muddy field, have uncovered all manner of seamy, unsavory creatures with curious links to Oswald. Under investigation are, among others, pro-Castro leftists, anti-Castro Cubans and a motley assortment of beatniks, homosexuals and psychopaths of various stripes. Their haunts ranged from "gay" coffee shops and bars in New Orleans' French Quarter to shadowy back streets in the Cuban sections of Dallas and Miami...
...interview the Emperor of Japan, he asked his companions to help him frame an unusual question: How would you ask the Emperor how it felt to be a mortal and no longer revered as a god? He himself then proceeded to frame the question, simply and in a dignified manner that robbed it of any impertinence. He was a frequent visitor at the White House, particularly during the Kennedy and Johnson administrations, and he never lost a certain awe of the office of the presidency...
...Products. Ministers also use some surprising visual aids to get across a point in contemporary terms. One Sunday, the Rev. Lon Chestnut, Methodist chaplain at Emory University, projected illustrations from Playboy onto the chapel wall. His theme was that Christians should not treat other human beings in the Playboy manner, as disposable consumer products. On another Sunday, the congregation of Cincinnati's St. Timothy's Episcopal Church was startled when one parishioner got up to leave in the middle of the sermon by the Rev. John Wesley Bishop. "Why are you leaving?" Bishop asked. "Because you are talking...