Word: mannered
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...year-old Geneva atom-test talks. If the talks succeeded, there would be a summit. If they failed by Feb. 1, "the U.S. will be prepared to detonate atomic devices necessary to advance our peaceful technology." In Muskegon, Mich, next day, Nixon promised, if elected-in a manner reminiscent of Ike's "I will go to Korea"-to tour the Russian satellite capitals in person, to "at least let them see that we haven't forgotten them...
...wild urge of the throngs to touch him. The more he campaigned, the more he seemed endowed with the same charisma that won and held popularity for Dwight Eisenhower. In appearance he is a slender man with a boyish face, an uncontrollable shock of hair, a dazzling smile. In manner he is alert, incisive, speaking in short, terse sentences in a chowderish New England accent that he somehow makes attractive (even when he pronounces Cincinnati as "Since-in-notty" in Cincinnati), reaching with no apparent effort into a first-class mind for historical anecdotes or classical allusions. Like...
...Lamont, instituted last year as a result of a Council recommendation, has worked very well. Almost 100 per cent of the books now borrowed are returned on time; and there is no reason to assume that books taken out of the library would not be created in the same manner, Petri concluded...
...embassy of its "regret" that the incident had occurred, but a spokesman emphasized this did not imply diplomatic apology. Since Smirnov is noted among Soviet diplomats for his even-voiced courtesy and easy charm, the German news agency D.P.A. concluded: "Smirnov could hardly have acted in such an unusual manner for a diplomat if he had not had instructions from Moscow...
...softhearted. "The frail young woman with a drove of ragged children trailing her is often an agent for some secondhand store, and follows all of the rummage sales in that same appealing manner. If some customers seem actually needy, tell them how to get in touch with a charitable organization that does not charge...