Word: mannerized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Unwilling to lend himself to propaganda circuses. De Gaulle had no enthusiasm for participating in a TV spectacular in Manhattan. He said that a summit meeting must be prepared with care, which would require time, and that since "the destiny of the Middle East affects in a direct manner that of all Europe," he proposed before any such meeting to "begin immediate consultations with other powers, notably European ones, which are interested." If Khrushchev wanted a special U.N. Security Council session, "considering, apparently, that the urgency of the questions relating to the Middle East has diminished," then such nations...
India recognized the new regime in Baghdad, but Prime Minister Nehru was repelled by the bloodthirsty manner in which it came to power. Nehru-who is no lover of Nasser-was reported disturbed by Nasser's maneuvers to cast his net over the entire Middle East, for the Middle East is India's lifeline to the West...
...painful cut on the forearm. Tallu was alone at home, except for a maid and a young man whom she was considerately nursing through a case of hepatitis, when, in the middle of the night, she slashed her arm on the fragments of a lamp broken in a manner never adequately explained. Then-in her own roaring narrative-"three divine policemen, all six feet eight, came in. They couldn't have been more charming. They got me this sweet doctor and he took five stitches in my arm." While in minor surgery, she cried to a hovering medic: "Dahling...
...Egyptian commandos (identified as such by their manner of speech) attacked Baalbek late...
...convinced that it is never right to settle any policy simply out of fear of the consequences . . . For all I know it is within the providence of God that the human race should destroy itself in this manner [nuclear...