Word: pliantly
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...statesman who attempted to dominate it, as it had rejected its own President (Speaker) Fernand Bouisson. When President Lebrun finally had to send for Pierre Laval again, that Senator was daisy-fresh and ready to work all night whipping a Cabinet together while everyone else was dead beat, exhausted, pliant...
...chair, at a man's desk, Mrs. Reid looks singularly small and frail. Tiny she is; frail she is not. Her grey hair is bobbed and waved, and her thin straight lips are carefully rouged, but the wife of the president of the Herald Tribune is anything but pliant. She moves slowly, speaks slowly in a voice which to a stranger sounds disinterested. But when she says in an offhand way "I think it would be nice if . . ." there is not an underling on her newspaper who mistakes it for anything but a command...
...strong, lone warrior like Arabian King Ibn Saud (see col. I) is his neighbor on the north, pliant King Feisal of Irak who leans like an unsteady reed on sturdy Britons...
...large quantities during 1931. The doll we made then has since been improved but it is still equipped in the larger sizes with a light flexible metal frame and contrary to the inference made in your article, it is not heavy or cumbersome but on the contrary is light, pliant, cuddly and attractive...
...answer must perforce lie in the future. Chicago may have gone at reorganization in too violent a fashion. Her wrath at existing conditions may have led her to an attempt at reform that is too extreme for the undergraduates. The American mind is flexible, but it may not be pliant enough to accept all these changes in one year. There can be little doubt but that Chicago has found a panacea for the ills of modern education. The real question lies in the drastic method of its application...