Word: mannerized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...huge Western economic club to beat down Nasser-had its flaws for John Foster Dulles as well. For the U.S. aim had to be not only to protect its vital interests and those of its Western allies in the Suez and Middle East, but also to negotiate in a manner that did not draw a permanent cleavage between the Western world and the Arab and Asian countries...
Holly, whose full name is Elizabeth Holland Carleton, impressed the judges with her quiet modesty and pleasant manner. But despite her quiet manner she admitted to an interest in the outdoors, ranging through tennis, swimming, water skiing, and casual hikes...
...With the Dhoti. For all his playboy manner, however, Suhrawardy is a deliberate contender for power. His opponents call him "a complete opportunist"; Suhrawardy softens that to read "complete politician." The son of a rich Calcutta mill owner, he entered politics soon after his graduation from Oxford, was a sufficiently good administrator to become Chief Minister of Bengal, one of the biggest jobs in British India. With India's independence and its partition into Hindu and Moslem nations. Moslem Suhrawardy, instead of going to Moslem Pakistan, toured Bengal with Mahatma Gandhi and tried...
...gyros and electronics named LABS (Low Altitude Bombing System), manufactured by Minneapolis-Honeywell Regulator Co. The plane approaches the target flying as low as possible to keep below the enemy's radar. The atom bomb under its belly has been set to explode in the desired manner, at a predetermined altitude, or after actually penetrating the ground. The LABS apparatus has been cranked full of information, and the pilot has been briefed to head for a landmark just short of the target. As he approaches it, he levels and steadies the plane's flight and flicks a switch...
...find this very irksome." Then Stevenson charged Kefauver with neglecting his Senate duties. Said he: "There may be such a thing as wanting to be President too badly." Retorted Kefauver: "Mr. Stevenson is not talking sense; he is simply talking nonsense, and he is doing it in the manner of a man who is desperate...