Word: manner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...manner also new to modern diplomacy, the U.S. had seized on an omission in Stalin's reply to U.S. Newspaperman Kingsbury Smith. Smith had asked what Stalin's terms were for calling off the blockade. Stalin's answer made no men tion of the issue of Berlin's currency, his major earlier demand. In the U.N. lounge, Jessup met Malik and asked: Was the omission accidental? Malik said he would find...
...MacArthur not only says it, he gets away with it-in that he carries at least the conviction that he believes what he says. He recalls a very American vanishing type-the philosopher-politician who has been a trial lawyer. His is the manner of the leader of the state bar (say, Virginia) who could leave the courtroom after a performance and settle on the veranda, recount the day to his family, telling what he had borrowed from Plato and what from Sir Walter Scott, and conclude: 'And every word I said to them I know in my heart...
...charitable about their great conductor's churlishness, blossomed with flowery lead editorials on the great day. Said the Times: "Music is the medicine of the mind and Sir Thomas . . . is among the best doctors of the age, combining high professional skill with a highly popular bedside manner." Said the Manchester Guardian: "Sir Thomas . . . has always been and will always be an individualist. Everybody, including those on whose corns he has trodden, will wish him many years of life to go on being...
This week, in Briton Hadden: A Biography of the Co-Founder of TIME (236 pp.,Farrar, Straus, $3), Busch, a first cousin of Hadden and now a LIFE senior writer, tells what manner of man Brit Hadden was. The informal portrait, lit with humor, shows a husky, mustached young man with intense grey eyes, enormous curiosity and vitality, and a huge capacity for work, play and horseplay. In his life & time (and the extravagant, turbulent '20s were all the time he had) his impact on U.S. journalism was as forceful...
...Taft and Hill bills provide for the indigent in the manner of a relief agency. In contrast, the Truman proposal covers more than half of the nation. It absorbs most of the shock for that enormous group who can afford proper care for serious illnesses only at the expense of their normal standard of living. Harry Truman summed it up as well as anybody could: "Medical care is needed as a right and not as a medical dole...