Word: manneredness
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The mild-mannered Cochran seemed a bit frustrated with Coburn's tactics last week, and that's not unusual. Coburn's habit of going down to the Senate floor and ridiculing projects his colleagues want funding for is "annoying" to some of them, says Mel Martinez, a Republican from Florida...
The indignation with that phenomenon grew so high that some 35,000 people - according to internal police projections - gathered in the square Sunday night. Considering that opposition rallies over the last several years had been unable to attract more than 4,000 to 5,000, it was an astounding figure...
Harvard hockey captain Pete Hafner is as mild-mannered as he is tall, and so the sight of the 6’5 defenseman fuming after last Friday’s 5-1 ECAC quarterfinal loss to St. Lawrence was very nearly unbelievable.
It is only fitting. Kirby has always been eclipsed by Summers, his tenure as dean judged in light of his relationship with the president, his ability to lead compromised by Summers’ heavy hand. The mild-mannered Kirby, who has always been more likely to speak in Chinese proverbs...
There were, of course, other sparks that might have lit the last fire for Summers. As Matory puts it, Summers was brought in because ?somebody had the bright idea that we needed a ringmaster to whip us into shape,? and as such, was destined to clash with faculty. And humanities...