Word: mannerize
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...chose a chief, Mikhail Gorbachev, who at 54 is young enough to give the U.S.S.R. vigorous leadership for the rest of the century. Gorbachev moved quickly to consolidate his power, firing old-line bureaucrats by the score and wooing popular support by touring Soviet farms and factories in the manner of a handshaking, baby-kissing Western politician. He broke the long, frozen silence between the nuclear superpowers by agreeing to meet President Ronald Reagan in Geneva for the first Soviet-American summit in six years. Their November talks in front of a cozy fire moved none of the substantive issues...
...muddled for a sufficient number of decades, knighthoods. Samson's boss Dicky Cruyer is a particularly loathsome species of well-connected idler, and Deighton takes great pleasure in demonstrating this. " 'Let me tell you something, Bernard,' said Dicky, leaning well back in the soft leather seat and adopting the manner of an Oxford don explaining the law of gravity to a delivery boy . . . 'It could get messy; people with a history of bad decisions are going to be axed very smartly.' Dicky smiled. He could afford to smile; Dicky had never made a decision in his life. Whenever something decisive...
...Colt pass catcher was hoisted jubilantly aboard his players' shoulders and given an extended ride about the stadium such as no pro and few college coaches or even matadors have ever enjoyed. "They did carry me off the field, didn't they?" Berry said later in the self-effacing manner he brought to the National Football League 31 years ago from Paris, Texas. "I was floating already anyway...
...proof of negligence. Initially it was applied, for example, to businesses conducting abnormally dangerous activities. Now it has been expanded to product-liability cases: a plaintiff need not prove that the manufacturer of a product was negligent, only that the plaintiff was injured while using the product in the manner intended...
...Marcoses, however, leaving may be the best revenge. In the manner of deposed royalty, they have apparently taken the lion's share of their wealth into Hawaiian exile with them, together with their imperial habits. Last week the Pentagon reported that the cost of transporting and supporting Marcos and his retinue had come to $450,000, thanks in part to the $500 long-distance telephone bills run up each day by the party. As the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Foreign Operations debated the merits of entertaining the exiled dictator in such high style, Marcos reportedly was looking for a haven...