Word: mannerized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...manner of Socialists everywhere these days, Japan's out-of-power Socialists spend as much time and energy fighting one another as they do fighting the opposition. Right-wing Japanese Socialists dream of a "responsible" Socialist Party along the lines of the British Labor Party; left-wingers prefer brawls to ballots, and take their cues from the Communist-lining leaders of Japan's biggest labor federation, the 3,500,000-man Sohyo...
...receiving CCA endorsement, these Councillors, regardless of their backgrounds and manner of their campaigns, have accepted, in general form, the goals of the Association's platform. They are not, of course, obligated to vote with the CCA on any issure at all, though they could lose endorsement or overzealous independence. And they have the further responsibility of initiating as well as supporting progressive legislation...
...commandeers a dozen healthy, helmeted Berlin youths, marches them to the neighboring town of Koepenick, and ends up arresting the mayor and sending him to jail. The film, as it might appear, is primarily a comedy, and the last fifteen minutes are delightful in a Teutonic, beer and wursty manner...
...staff is aware of subtle changes in manner that also belie his age. At 69, Dwight Eisenhower is less set in his ways than he was when he first took the Presidential oath of office at 62. He has become at once more pragmatic and more flexible and adaptable-even foxy in his skillful handling of Congress and his new-found warm relations with the press. He has become more and more at ease in office, while making it clear that he would be more than happy...
Even after the mystery came back to the U.S., through the first two decades of the 20th century, crimes were committed in the grand old English manner. Murder was still a puzzle, and whether S. S. Van Dine, Ellery Queen or H C Bailey were writing the rules, the mari who found the answer was a citizen of superior intellect. Whatever he collected for the job, he actually worked for intellectual satisfaction. It was not until 1929 that a slim, sardonic operator named Samuel Dashiell Hammett published Red Harvest and gave murder-to say nothing of lesser crimes-back...