Word: manners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...considers typical a conversation he had with a Russian lawyer one night after the theater. Meeting in a cafe at eleven o'clock, they walked around Red Square and talked openly about Russia and America for two and a half hours. Then the Russian finally said, in the manner of one who is putting a delicate question, "We have been quite frank with each other; let me now ask you a frank question: Why does your government not pass a law forbidding discrimination against Negroes...
When Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson took office two years ago, he announced his new farm program in much the same manner as a spinster discovering a new beauty lotion. Castigating the old rigid-price support program as costly and incompetent, Benson proposed a new flexible support idea which he claimed would cut wasteful surpluses while promoting farm efficiency. Answering Democratic criticism, he denied that his plan would lower prices for efficient and cooperative farmers...
...letter dated October 10, Levin asked all who had made pledges to pay them directly to the Council. He stated that the University prohibition against term bill collections "was not known to us at registration, so we must ask for your contribution in this manner...
...carefree, shuffling manner, both as narrator to the audience and participant in the comedy, Andy Griffith focuses the play excellently. As his harried sergeant, Myron McCormick stiffens with rage and groans in despair at just the right moments. Yet he also includes a touch of pathos which gives the comedy depth. Roddy McDowall has a smaller role as Will's whining and utterly realistic buddy, but he manages it neatly. Lastly, Howard Freeman and Royal Beal create convincing characters out of the two red-faced generals, who stomp and fume and titter falsely before exploding...
While President Eisenhower lay ill in Denver, the team that he had brought to Washington was carrying forward the executive department's business in a manner unprecedented in U.S. history. For 2½ hours the NSC, composed of key U.S. officials who deal with the total problem of defense, e.g., the Secretaries of State and Defense and the defense mobilizer, worked its way through a normal agenda. Next day, with the young (42) Vice President again sitting as chairman, the Cabinet met and pushed through the week's business. Out of the two meetings came a list...