Word: mannerize
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...cracking down on sloppy work. Last week the agency filed suit against 34 organizations and individuals in eleven states, charging them with failure to notify the government of their work or handling the asbestos in a dangerous manner. Among the accused: the New York City Board of Education. If found guilty, the defendants could be forced to pay $25,000 in fines for each day of each violation...
...with gray. Teeth: bottom row gold-plated, which leads to the hunch that they are false. Stature: shorter than expected. Uniform: brown boots and breeches, simple brown shirt, adorned only by the Iron Cross and Nazi brassard. Smile: humorless. Salute: stylized by throwing the hand back over the shoulder. Manner: pleasant, usually not at ease, knees moving back and forth nervously...
Bolshevism was mentioned. "It was like hitting Hitler with a torpedo. He assumed the platform manner on a small scale, the toss of the head, the laugh of scorn, the sweep of the hand. Only the snarl was missing. 'I have only one fear,' Hitler said. 'It is that the countries around us, into which the poison of Bolshevism is eating its way, will succumb to the Red wave one after another. Moscow is seeking to dominate Europe. We shall never permit that...
...Pentagon, the Andean initiative raises inevitable whispers about another endless war in the jungle against elusive guerrillas. Bennett aides reply that the American soldiers will not go out on raids or act as field commanders in the manner of U.S. military advisers in Viet Nam. Says an official: "Viet Nam showed us that we can't do in a country what a country doesn't want to do for itself. That doesn't mean we can't help democracies that are young and fragile to solve a problem...
...spacious city campus but at a spartan military academy 1,260 miles south of Beijing, where the curriculum will be heavily weighted in favor of discipline and party ideology. Said an angry teacher: "The government probably thinks it can change the minds of young people in this manner so that they will avoid being troublemakers in the future." Some face a particularly grueling ideological brush-up. The State Education Commission has ruled that all graduates since 1985 must spend a year working in the countryside or in a factory...