Word: mannerized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Raditsa defended the stories' manner of presentation, asserting that "the discussion of contemporary problems justifies the means. The protests have come from the usual strange New Englanders who have nothing to do and have their life behind them anyhow...
...Compromise. Harold Macmillan, whose diplomatic manner is less polished than his predecessor's, bluntly disagreed...
Anthony Eden, gradually working off a slightly ill-at-ease manner and flashing quick, rabbity smiles, eagerly seized the opportunity. "Nothing is more displaced than the Socialist suggestion that we have been dilatory in our approach to Russia," he said. "I have talked across the table with the Russians for many years, probably more than any other man living," said Eden in his home constituency of Warwick and Leamington.* The response emboldened the man who had waited so long and now stood, at last, in the sun. "You must decide on May 26," he said at Reading of the coming...
...grey-haired lady shouted from the crowd: "Why did you wait three and a half years?" Angry bystanders jostled the lady and murmured, "Go back to Moscow." Eden put on the father-knows-best manner which comes all too easily to well-schooled, club-and-garden-party-trained Tories. "You ought to be ashamed to mention the matter, dear lady," ssaid Eden. "We have built more schools in three and a half years than the Socialists in six." "Not enough," snapped the old lady...
...Barr's affable efficiency had won him a vice-presidency and the key post of corporation secretary. He survived the great man's purges partly by knowing when to keep his mouth shut. When he disagreed with Avery it was always in private and in a courteous manner. Barr is popular with the staff, has even won a Wolfson accolade: "In my book, he's tops...