Word: mannerize
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...different routes to arrive within .88 sec. of each other at the same destination: fastest in the world. And then something happened that showed they were true kin under the skin. As Jones, overwhelmed, broke down sobbing under the stands, Greene was in the stadium behaving in an extraordinary manner - not swaggering, but crying too. "Tears of joy," both runners called them later...
...potential problem with the manner in which he chose to end The Streak. I am afraid that it was the record, and not the natural course of the game, that most influenced Ripken's decision...
More disturbing still is the sort of "revolving door" syndrome that specialty judges and courts would most likely exhibit. The "revolving door" is dubbed as such due to the manner in which people tend to move between the top levels of industry and the regulatory departments of the executive branch; for instance, the president's appointees to the Treasury Department tend to be top business leaders. Problems arise when those appointees then have to help control and regulate an industry to which they are often inextricably linked...
...when Vitina's streets were crowded with shoppers, a group of four U.S. soldiers, including Ronghi, "assaulted several females when they touched some of the female's hair, grabbed their buttocks and their body parts and spoke to them in a seductive manner. 'Hey baby, what's your name?'" one soldier later confided to investigators that he groped the women "just to get a cheap thrill...
...were supposed to bump into people to show them we weren't weak," a private told investigators. "Everyone in the squad has done things like put their arms around females when they are walking by us and talk to them in a flirting manner," Private First Class Joshua Robertson told investigators. Plainly, the Army provided inept intelligence to these troops before sending them to Kosovo. "I really thought we were coming over here to do some type of damage," one unidentified soldier said, "but when we got over here, the people were really nice...