Word: manners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Britain: Shocked millions, including a large minority of its own citizens, who thought that contemporary Britain would never start a war of aggression, and shocked them further by the manner in which its intentions and purposes were masked. In the Arab world it is now said...
...press-conference answers. Despite provocative questioning ("Are we writing off as a fact the permanence of Russian influence in the Middle East?"), he refused to specify by what means the U.N. might decide to oppose Russian volunteers, but noted meaningfully that the U.N. "is not by any manner of means limited to resolutions" (e.g., Korea). When he was asked about the possibility of three-power talks with Britain and France, or a parley at the summit with the Russians, he again stood by the spirit of the U.N. While the U.N. was seeking peace in the Middle East, he said...
...personal secretary, Mary Jane McCaffree, bragged: "She's getting more mail than the President today!" Asked how she felt about spending another four years in the White House, Mamie, while posing for pictures in the library, said: "I'm feeling fine and very grateful." What manner of present had Ike given his wife? "That," laughed the President, "is our secret...
...Sept. 24), expects his subordinates to follow his example. While businessmen had to be forced under protest to adopt measures such as the guaranteed annual wage and pension funds, they have voluntarily introduced profit-sharing and stock-purchase plans, launched vast human-relations programs that give the employee all manner of benefits from psychiatry to symphonies...
...suddenly the figure comes to life. The lips part, the eyes half close, the clutched guitar begins to undulate back and forth in an uncomfortably suggestive manner. And wham! The midsection of the body jolts forward to bump and grind and beat out a low-down rhythm that takes its pace from boogie and hillbilly, rock 'n' roll and something known only to Elvis and his pelvis. As the belly dance gets wilder, a peculiar sound emerges. A rusty foghorn? A voice? Or merely a noise produced, like the voice of a cricket, by the violent stridulation...