Word: mannerized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Eden faced greater trouble than his manner suggested. The drama of Suez, which had roused patriotic support for him, was over. Now Britain faced the bleak penalties of the blocked canal, which were making their dragging weight felt in every British home and factory. Three influential journals-the Times, the Daily Telegraph and the Economist-greeted his return by wondering, almost with one voice, whether Eden was up to his job. Wrote the Daily Telegraph, the most Tory of them all: "The strain will become greater, not less. If Sir Anthony can bear it, and give the leadership for which...
During the 40 days of the world crisis, the trend to the U.S. was often lost in the gunsmoke; yet it was the manner in which the contestants were behaving in the test that affected the course of world opinion. U.S. Middle Eastern policy was the target of angry criticism in Europe and unofficial Washington, but it was precisely this policy that demonstrated to the world, In terms of high drama, the U.S.'s traditional adherence to the principles of law and justice. U.S. policy on Hungary was criticized as too little and too late (see FOREIGN NEWS...
...black flags; this time Puppet Premier Janos Kadar's newly revamped security police beat them back with gun butts. When some of the women took cover in the British legation, a Russian tank lumbered up and stuck its gun into the open door. In his iciest Foreign Office manner, First Secretary Christopher Cope told the tank commander that he needed no Russian protection from "our Hungarian friends." Another delegation of women entered the U.S. legation a couple of blocks away, with a plea for U.N. help. Four Russian tanks roared up; Kadar's cops swung rifle butts...
Elliot Perkins '23, Master of Lowell House, has announced that the dinner will be "remeniscent of the manner in which Mr. Lowell believed that Harvard men should dine," a manner resembling that of a "gentleman's club...
...University's 1900 veterans, along with reservists across the country, received notification last week advising "that you should arrange your personal affairs in such a manner that entry upon the active duty with short notice will cause minimum inconvenience...