Word: manners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...should the Chinese Communist government sign an armistice or in some other manner pledge to refrain from military operations against Formosa, the last reason for nonrecognition and nonadmission will have been removed. When, under such conditions, Peking adopts normal attitudes toward foreign nationals, liberates them from her jails and permits their exit, when the usual facilities for the functioning of diplomatic representatives are provided in Peking, the time will have come to revise our position on recognition and admission...
...dramatics notwithstanding (the communists must translate every action into financial terms), it would seem a desire on the part of each hazy-minded competitor that there is a form of glory to be gained, whether physical or no, from bashing his guts and brains out in a more dashing manner than that of others on the field...
Invited by the National Association of Home Builders, the Russians arrived in Washington for a 30-day tour of 13 cities to study U.S. methods. Their chief: hearty but acid I. K. Kozuilia, boss of all urban construction in the U.S.S.R. Their manner: inquisitive skepticism, caused partly by apparent unwillingness to be as folksy as the Russian farm group, partly by what they...
...Some diplomats felt that his official resignation was not far off, perhaps after the Big Four foreign ministers meeting at Geneva. Others guessed he might keep the trappings if not the power of office for some time to come. After all, Georgy Malenkov is still around. It was the manner of Molotov's decline which interested the onlookers most, for all the slaphappy cordiality of Soviet leaders, there was still some high-level weeding going on in the Soviet garden...
...million dollars is to be given to the Trusiees of Tufts College, to be held in trust, however, and forever kept intact as a separate fund and to be in no manner mingied with other funds of the college and to be used for the establishment and maintenance of a School of Law and Diplomacy...