Word: mannered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...drug lords have responded to the narcotics crackdown in a particularly devastating manner. To avoid the harsh jail sentences mandated by new federal and state laws, kingpins are using teenagers to distribute drugs on the streets...
Jackson himself was turning up the pressure in a different manner. With the field reduced to two, sharper comparisons are inevitable. In speeches, Jackson is drawing distinctions in subtle terms. "This is no time for politics as usual," he said in Pennsylvania. "We don't need to massage Reaganomics; we need Jackson action." By inference, he was saying that Dukakis is a masseur whereas he is an orthopedic surgeon who will rearrange the economy's skeleton. In an interview with TIME, Jackson lapsed into the third person: "There will be a lot of comparative analysis between our approaches...
...When the two decided to marry, Dukakis' parents were less than thrilled: they liked her, but a divorced woman with a young son was not what they had envisioned for their Michael. Kitty's parents were delighted: her mother dubbed Michael "the Saint," referring to not only his righteous manner but his willingness to put up with the mercurial and sometimes difficult Katharine...
Most -- perhaps all -- of the addresses at the seminar were remarkable. They evoked a rich diversity of emotions from those who heard them, laughter, joy, sorrow, admiration. But it was Niebuhr who evoked the most tremendous response at one moment of his address, and it happened in this manner. This particular incident is not recorded in Christian Idea of Education (Yale University Press, 1957), which was published as a record of the seminar, for the simple reason that it was spontaneous and unrehearsed, and did not form part of Niebuhr's script...
...make it through the Senate. Moreover, with his silver- ^ blue pompadour and dour expression, Byrd, 70, has proved no match as an adversary to Ronald Reagan's polished role as the Great Communicator. As a Democratic spokesman following Reagan's State of the Union addresses, Byrd, with his stilted manner, came across on television like a clerk calling roll...