Word: mannerisms
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1940
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Hitler obviously cannot let Mussolini lose in Albania and Libya. The former campaign, planned as a pushover, was to have been only the warm-up for a much larger Axis drive into the Near East conducted in the usual Hitler manner: politics backed by power. The thrust into Egypt, even if not successful in capturing Suez, was at least to occupy Britain's full strength in the Near East while other Axis victories were won northeast of Suez. Now both shows had not only flopped but threatened to cost the Axis dear in power and prestige. Reports began flowing...
...kind: few diplomats in U. S. history have accomplished so much in so brief and difficult a period. Yet their tributes gave no indication that before Lord Lothian's brief U. S. career there had been a long ordeal of frustrations and setbacks that nothing in his manner suggested...
...sign of defeat marked Lord Lothian's manner, just as, a few days before his death, he gave no sign of his illness. As a Christian Scientist he believed that his real life lay in the world of thought, and that he could go through unpleasant material experiences by not making a reality of them. Last week those who heard his Baltimore speech, with its description of Londoners under fire-stubbornly denying the ultimate reality of the bombings-felt that it applied as keenly to his own denial of his last illness...
...real significance of Queen Ann's visit to Harvard, though, lies deep in the hearts of the boys at the studio who think her charm, ready wit, and unassuming manner maker her Harvard's sweetheart. And she loves Harvard "gentlemen...
Finally, Ec 81 is as capably handled now as it was under Walsh, while no one has ever complained of the excellent manner in which Dr. Swoozy teaches the economics of socialism. All in all, the Ec department is hardly worthy of another Crimson Crusade. Richard B. Wolf...