Word: mannerize
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...Institute sensitivity training for Harvard police on both issues of sexual orientation and racial sensitivity. Their use of rubber gloves to fingerprint gays arrested in the Science Center bathroom was unnecessary and demeaning. The police have also had problems treating Black students in a fair and respectful manner...
...Thoughtful Manner...
Benjamin W. Parker, a Harvard custodian whose kind manner toward people and animals earned him the nickname "Gentle Ben" during his 45-year tenure at Harvard, died last Sunday of stomach cancer...
...rehashed old Soviet positions on Central America and lectured Aronson about the sensibilities of small Latin nations condemned by geography to labor in the shadow of the American colossus. Aronson was concerned that the Soviet tone was changing and wanted to signal that only the first session's manner could lead to progress. When Komplektov did his "small nations" riff for the third time in 90 minutes, Aronson fired back. "Mr. Minister," he said, "you don't have to tell me about the sensitivities of small countries. My grandfather was a Latvian." Komplektov never reappeared at a subsequent U.S.-Soviet...
...never conceded. "We choked hard on that one," says a former Ortega adviser. "Of course we didn't believe it, but our backs were against the wall. It seemed that the whole world was down on us. Even the Soviets had said -- in what for them was a strident manner -- if Soviet-American relations seriously deteriorated, we would be to blame. If we hadn't gone along with the others at San Isidro, we would have been completely isolated." Broadly seen, San Isidro was a triumph of American and Soviet strategy...