Word: methodic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...American National Red Cross made it official: the preferred method of artificial respiration is for the rescuer to put his mouth to the victim's and breathe air into the victim's lungs about twelve times a minute. For children, the Red Cross recommends shallower breaths, a rate of about 20 to the minute...
...sicknik mood and method range all the way from the wistful social desperation of Elaine May and Mike Nichols, who are barely sick at all-just an occasional mild symptom-to the usually vicious barrage of Lenny Bruce. Where Elaine and Mike meditate on the problem of a stranded motorist who has lost his last dime, or a boss quietly trying to drink a secretary into submission. Newcomer Bruce, 33, likes to defend Leopold and Loeb: ''Bobby Franks was snotty...
...found on a par with the average products of the Washington Square Arts Festival. In general, the many minor objects randomly interspersed among the major works gives the impression of an "attic" rather than "Attic" sort of collection. Nor shall I absolve the Busch from the equally random method of installation accorded the exhibition. The installation of three sculptures in one case, one on top of the other, has never been the dream of the artgoer, and the use of different levels is handled poorly--without any strong accents on the bottom level of the main gallery, the collection...
Unity & Continuity. Because the Commonwealth itself is new, the Queen's role in heading it is new, and is thus a task demanding far more sensitivity and stamina than the easier chores of many another monarch who ruled the Empire. She clearly sees travel as a major method of ruling. But even when she is at home in London and serving as Queen of Great...
...impertinence!" he rasped. "The old man has done it again." Demanding a showdown, he went before a hurriedly arranged party caucus the same morning to state his case. Adenauer was conspicuously absent-asked by party aides to stay away-as Erhard rose to fume: "There seems to be a method behind [the Chancellor's] attitude . . . My reputation is to be systematically destroyed." For once, no one stood to defend the Chancellor, and one Erhard follower cried: "Ludwig, if you don't fight now, you will disqualify yourself for good...