Word: manneredness
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The women might never have known Katsura Squadron's odd fate had not Mrs. Atsuko Hori, now the wife of an Ozuki businessman, tracked down the pilots and invited them to a reunion. To Kenji Katayama, a mild-mannered Kyoto agricultural official at 43, the invitation brought a "burning...
Died. René Schick, 56, president of Nicaragua since 1963, a mild-mannered Managua professor and civil servant who was the hand-picked candidate of the country's all-powerful Somoza family, yet proved less of a do-nothing puppet than expected, largely running his own show and permitting...
A favorite butt of early TIME baiters was the distinctive and mannered style in which the magazine was written during its formative years. In a famous 1936 New Yorker parody, the late Wolcott Gibbs caricatured that style in the classic line: "Backward ran sentences until reeled the mind." Our sentences...
Sweethearts & Samaritans. Its poign ancy was accentuated by the youth and decency of the victims. All eight of the girls, as one observer noted, were "good people, the daughters, sisters and sweethearts of other good people." Neighbors volunteered that they were model tenants, quiet, serious and well-mannered.
Arthur Hill plays much the same part in Harper that Walter Matthau played in Charade. He's so mild-mannered you can't avoid suspecting him, but Hill in any guise is marvelous.