Word: mannered
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...threatening messages drop through their mail slot. Auteuil's lingering unease over a vindictive act he committed as a boy leads him to suspect his old victim had a hand in the current mischief, but the perpetrator is not directly revealed. In A History of Violence, a mild-mannered guy named Tom (Viggo Mortensen) is shocked to find himself accused of having been a big-city hit man 20 years earlier. The film snakes through all manner of twists until the last scene, when Tom returns home and ... now what...
...look at Greg Zielinski--Z to just about everyone on post--and for a split second you wonder whether he is actually built out of some material other than flesh and blood. Everything about him shines--his nearly shaved head, every buckle and boot, his manner. His father says if Zielinski hadn't gone to West Point, he probably would have been president of a fraternity. He is pathologically social, both liked and looked up to by fellow cadets, especially those who bleed Army green. "Z?" they say. "He's huah," delivering the words with the appropriate Southern drawl--"heezoowah...
...person allegedly behaving in a “suspicious” manner led an officer to the Malkin Athletic Center. The responding officer searched the building but could not find this person...
...definitely necessary for the council to have a vice president in place over the summer to facilitate the ongoing work of the executive board. The manner of Capp’s election can be justified by the timing of Nichols’ resignation, which came at the beginning of reading period, when looming exams and severe time pressure would have precluded a full election campaign regardless of the council’s bylaws. This reasoning fails, however, because the council’s rules mandate this kind of internal selection, timing aside...
...TIME: What would happen if the U.N. Security Council is asked to deal with Iran?s nuclear program? Kharrazi: Our engagement with the European side was not to stop enrichment but to continue with enrichment in a manner that would assure the other side that we would not divert material for weapons. [In] legal terms, nothing has been done wrong by Iran that could be taken to the Security Council. If for political reasons, the Americans want to push an Iranian foreign policy to the Security Council ... I don?t think that would lead to any result that would...