Word: method
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...might possibly gain enough electoral votes to keep both the Democratic and Republican presidential candidates from winning by a majority vote. The Federal Constitution provides for the election of a President in the House of Representatives if no candidate receives a majority -- a process which closely resembles the election method in Georgia...
...lack discipline. Are his garish slogans and slick phrases really necessary? They seem only to arouse the anger of the more dogmatic members of the church. The Episcopal Church is remarkable for its liberal thought, and surely is not offended by Pike's questioning, but only by his method of questioning. He has shown himself capable of deeo reflection and perceptive expression. Discipline rightly used will not diminish his message, but will polish and refine it into the harmonizing and reforming force it is meant...
Oddly enough, the fear of pain or unpleasantness in the method of killing oneself is often a potent deterrent. As Dorothy Parker wryly noted...
Tastes & Teflon. Today, when weight watching is a national pastime, the gargantuan fare of yesteryear is hard to digest, even in imagination. First to use an element of scientific method in home cooking was Mrs. D. A. Lincoln, whose 1883 Boston Cook Book introduced accurate measurements, explained, for instance, that a piece of "butter the size of an egg" was equal to 2 oz., or one-fourth of a cup. But it remained for one of her students, Fannie Farmer, who borrowed freely (and without credit) from Mrs. Lincoln, to make her precepts into national guidelines with The Boston Cooking...
...most amazing part of Anderson and Lithgow's proposal was their method for choosing the first new executive committee. They simply suggested that, together with Laura Esterman '66 and David Maynard '67, they would become the executive committee. This, understandably enough, aroused the fury of many HDC members...