Word: manual
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...half-baked CIA plot to poison Fidel Castro. But the book's chief merit is its direct access to the mind of a callous and frightened man. His fears about antitrust suits, Las Vegas competition and staff loyalty pale before his phobias. Dreading germs, he dictated a "Procedures Manual" for handling anything he was to touch: "Wash four distinct and separate times, using lots of lather each time from individual bars of soap . . . The door to the cabinet is to be opened using a minimum of 15 Kleenexes . . . Call Roy and have him come up to the house and awaken...
...Nicaragua, the U.S. continued its war against the Sandinistas, who were overwhelmingly elected this fall in what international observers described as scrupulously fair procedures. A CIA manual revealed we were instructing rebels to assassinate popular leaders...
...People's Republic and the first since 1979. Delegates freely discussed how China should never again experience the crackdown that followed Mao's "Let a hundred flowers bloom" movement in 1957 or anything like the Cultural Revolution of the late 1960s, when many writers were banished to manual labor for failing to toe the ideological line. What attracted the most attention, however, was a speech made by Hu Qili, a high- ranking member of the party's Secretariat. Hu told his 800 listeners that the party believed "literary creation must be free" and pledged that writers would never again become...
...York writer and teacher whose life had been rakish though not quite dissolute, he converted from irreligion to Catholicism at 23 and stunned friends three years later by joining the Order of Cistercians of the Strict Observance, commonly known as Trappists. The monks of Gethsemani lived on prayer, hard manual toil, vegetables and little else. Under the rule of silence, all conversation was forbidden...
...final report on the entire handbook operation, the House Intelligence Committee last week concluded that the manual, which advised rebels to "neutralize" opponents, violated a 1982 law barring efforts to overthrow the Nicaraguan government. But the panel blamed the illegal action on "negligence, not intent to violate the law." That may not be the end of the matter, however. Democratic Senator Patrick Leahy, who sits on the Senate Intelligence Committee, promised that his panel will "take a much harder look at overall CIA management...