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...unspoiled survivor of a vanished race. They soon became his devoted friends and admirers. When Ishi arrived in San Francisco, he had no words, even in Yahi, for most of the things he saw. English came slowly to him. Like many conservative, middle-aged men, he was a stickler for the proprieties. His native language had special forms to be spoken by men and women; for a man to use a female word when talking to other men was extremely bad manners. So Ishi masculinized all English words that sounded female to him. "Hat" became "hatna" and "sheep" became "sheepna...
Rump Session. In Normandy, and later in Holland, Taylor proved himself to be a master tactician, maneuvered his division with consistent versatility to keep open roads and harass the enemy. He insisted on peak performance from his staff, unceremoniously sacked one senior colonel for failing to act boldly. A stickler for discipline, Taylor once gave a lieutenant a medal for a dangerous patrol and simultaneously fined him $50 for not being clean-shaven. Taylor was harder on himself than anyone, making personal reconnaissances by Jeep, risking injury unnecessarily by sitting stubbornly at a staff table while shells fell...
...play an important role in giving his idea different settings: "You've got to be suspicious if anything satisfies you right off." After a quick lunch, Mauldin grids his drawingboard work area into nine squares and begins drafting the cartoon, first in pencil and then in ink. A stickler for just the right detail, he frequently consults his favorite reference, the Sears, Roebuck catalogue, or poses before a Polaroid Land camera (with a self-tripping shutter) to get the authentic look of a clenched fist, a tyrant's sneer, a trouser seat viewed from the rear...
...actual judging was a battle between the forces of evil--represented by the Poonies and myself, who were having mild hysterics--and the force of good--represented by the Miss America man, Marlen L. Slaven, an old hand at this sort of thing and a stickler for orderly procedure. Later Mr. Slaven was able to provide expert advice to the promoter...
...Says a competitor: "You just get surrounded by their tremendous manpower." A.H.S. bombards its clients with a monthly mailing of 25,000 "technical advisories," and whenever a customer has an anniversary or is promoted, he gets a personal note from his A.H.S. salesman or even from McGaw himself. A stickler for the personal letter approach, McGaw issues strict instructions to his staff on epistolary style; e.g., never sound professional, never start with...