Word: manners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this reference include the Episcopal Church) have been speaking of retreats for some time. But they are not retreats in the historic sense of Christian devotional life. The Episcopal Church, with its monks and sisters (as well as devout parish priests), conducts retreats in the only manner in which historic Christianity has known them-in silence...
...congratulate you on the excellent article and wonderful photographs. The public is becoming impatient, and there appears to be a great deal of misunderstanding relative to the proposed interstate highway system. Your article described the program in an understandable manner...
First Move. Last summer Khrushchev made a major move against Peep Peep. He produced a plan for reorganizing Soviet industry in a manner that would put the great plants and government enterprises under the control of his own regional and district party chiefs, instead of being centralized in Moscow. He could argue that the Moscow bureaucracy was top-heavy; it is. But Khrushchev had another motive. As Stalin's personnel manager, Malenkov had been largely responsible for building up the industrial technocracy. He had his principal supporters there. Malenkov saw a threat to his own strength, and fought back...
...Calabria to ask the advice of some more experienced guappi. "Appeal to her feminine curiosity," they suggested, and told him a few tricks of the trade. After that, Pietro, in the company of two friends, took up a stand opposite Francesca's door, puffing cigarettes in an urbane manner, blowing skilled smoke rings and spearing the rings with agile fingers, hoping to attract the lady...
...century and a half later the Massachusetts Assembly was to declare the Stamp Act "against Magna Carta and the natural rights of Englishmen and, therefore, according to the Lord Coke, null and void." And it was to give effect to this same manner of ruling that the U.S. Supreme Court itself was brought into existence...