Word: mannerized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...held next month, of leaders of some 50 transportation unions, whose membership runs to 3.5 million. His aim: confederation of transport workers who cover not only trucking, but also the waterfront, the air, the railroads and even the underground. Such a powerhouse group, if organized in the Hoffa manner, would be a serious threat to George Meany's A.F.L.-C.I.O., and would create a union monopoly that could conceivably pull the switch on the U.S. economy at the whim of James Riddle Hoffa...
...Cambridge to receive an honorary degree from Harvard, said of them: "These artists refuse every kind of temptation--searching for effect, facile emotion and egoism. They have attempted distribution of light and shade without diminishing the importance of a note, a rest, a rhythm, or a line. The manner in which they have attained their objectives brings back the memory of Pugno and Eugene Ysaye...
...remember deploring the publicity given the "misguided" members of Truman's Administration, and cannot help but abhor the press's full coverage of the "dirty" side of any administration. Is it not possible to criticize in a constructive manner so that our neighbors elsewhere in the world will not think we're juvenile and petty...
...train, how he eluded the phony appointments set up to trap him. With a certain masculine embarrassment, he reluctantly confirms French reports that he has on occasion disguised himself as a veiled Moslem woman, explains defensively: "I would do anything for the revolution." His proudest boast is of the manner in which he foiled a daring scheme originated by Jacques Soustelle, then Governor General of Algeria...
...after he qualified two colts for Roosevelt Raceway's $108,565 Messenger Stake, one of harness racing's richest, Trainer-Driver Del Miller learned that he himself would be watching the race from the stands. For driving last year's Messenger winner Meadow Lands "in a manner inconsistent with an attempt to win," Miller was set down for 15 days. "As far as I'm concerned," he sulked, "I do not plan to be seen in a sulky at Roosevelt even after my suspension...