Word: manneredness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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"The Arabs would be smart not to put us to the test," the normally mild-mannered Lieut. General Haim Bar-Lev, the retiring chief of staff, told a meeting of Israeli mayors. "We do not now need as many months as during the war of attrition to break them."
The desire for naturalism is deliciously expressed in a fragment from a huge Tree of Jesse, which probably decorated the first organ installed in St. Leonard's in the 16th century: David, dancing a jig before the Lord. Exuberance, indeed, was the most endearing characteristic of these relatively provincial...
Royalty, like well-mannered children, should be seen and not heard. That is why naughty Prince Bernhard of The Netherlands was scolded and put in a corner last week by Dutch Prime Minister Barend Biesheuvel. The prince had sounded off in a newspaper interview about the country's system...
S.M.U. trustees broke with tradition two years ago after determining that their 625-student business school was mediocre. To shake things up, they hired C. Jackson Grayson Jr., a mild-mannered man with radical education ideas who graduated from the Wharton and Harvard business schools, is fascinated by oil wildcatting...
Hot Pants. The sense of outrage seemed a little tired, a little artificial, but it was not confined to the right. Capitol Hill was boiling all week. The normally mild-mannered Senate minority leader, Pennsylvania Republican Hugh Scott, spoke scornfully of "hotpants principalities" that had opposed the U.S. He and...