Word: operandi
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...modus operandi is an calculated as it is certain. He appears at the track in a pin-stripe suit, wing-tips, and a smile. He is carrying his binoculars over his right shoulder and one of his two lackeys carries the briefcase with the condition books and results charts. His lackeys run errands for him such as checking the shoe board, the condition of the running surface, the direction of the wind, and noting down his comments. These messengers also share to some slight extent in the profits...
...Houston police force, however, the problem recently assumed particular urgency. It seems that a number of women were asked to identify an exhibitionist. His usual modus operandi was to appear unclad in an apartment corridor, punch a doorbell, stand there grinning when a woman answered-and then run. When a suspect was captured, some of the victims protested that they might not be able to recognize him in the line-up with clothes on. Deciding that it would be unfair to the innocent to stand there in the nude, Houston's cops ruled that the line-up would...
Wages of Sin. The Thug modus operandi was to assume the guise of peaceful travelers. Joining parties with their victims, they would charm them right up to the moment at which one designated Thug would seize a doomed man's wrists while another Thug would strangle him from behind with a noose of white or yellow silk-Kali's favorite colors. Sometimes talented Thugs would play the sitar and coax their victims into singing, the better to expose their throats for throttling...
...recalls with astonishment that after firing him Dulles telephoned to offer the use of his name as a reference. "What could I say?" asks Davies. "It was so bizarre." As Davies sees it, both he and Dulles were victims of the times. "Getting rid of me was his modus operandi with Congress," he says. "It made it easier for him to work with them. The Congress is not so naive now. It has learned to live with dissension on foreign affairs." He adds: "The State Department is catching up with the times in personnel matters as well as policy...
...favor of establishing additional modus operandi for the constant evaluation of our foreign aid program and for the supervision of the distribution of the funds provided for in such programs...