Word: manners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Russell: the civil rights bill will be enforced by "political-minded" Attorney General Herbert Brownell who, in turn, will be "constantly pressed by the Vice President of the U.S. to apply the great powers of the law to the Southern states at such places and in such time and manner as the N.A.A.C.P., of which the Vice President is the most distinguished member, may demand...
...should wear this or that color, or use this or that fork, i.e., social insecurity. I have always said "I ain't." The only incorrection is to use the form in other persons: that is, you ain't. Dull people will always speak in a dull manner, whether it is correct...
...difficulties, said the Prime Minister. Observed the Oxford-educated Bandaranaike dryly: "I can't pronounce his name either. I don't know whether it should be pronounced 'Click' or 'Gluck' [correct: Gluck]. I shouldn't think it is pronounced in the latter manner because that rhymes with 'cluck...
Houses in the Japanese manner are still rising more in California than in the rest of the country. In Pasadena, Architects Whitney Smith & Wayne Williams have designed homes with features as Japanese as a house on the Nagara. "We're not trying to hide anything," says Architect Williams. "We don't have an exposed beam suddenly stopped by plaster. The eye can follow the line right to its logical conclusion. There's so much chaos and confusion in the outside world today that a person has a right to peace in his own home." Adds Partner Smith...
...long-life storage of valuable documents. The tape will last for up to 100 years, cannot be erased, thus eliminating one of the drawbacks of present tape, which can easily be accidentally erased. Orr sees unlimited uses for tape, not only for computers and automatic machines but for all manner of consumer products. Like other tapemakers, he sees tape recordings superseding phonograph records as soon as the cost can be cut. Before long, he expects, people will take home movies with electronic cameras employing magnetic tapes, run them off through their TV sets. Says he: "Our sales will be limited...