Word: adaptable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Clear the Lobbies." Added Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden: "What we need now is a working base and not a beleaguered garrison . . . We have to adapt our minds more and more to the conception that countries, wherever they are, do not like to have foreign troops on their soil . . . More and more we shall have to base ourselves upon our own strategic reserve here and our ability to fly it to whatever quarter it is needed...
Manhattan's Carolyn Schnurer is a fashion designer who gets her best ideas abroad, but not from the salons of other designers. Every year she travels to such far-off places as Haiti. South Africa and Japan to see what native styles and costumes she can adapt for American natives, especially as sports clothes. In ten years of such globetrotting, Carolyn Schnurer has built a big reputation-and a $7,000,000 annual business...
...keeps the other part of the people impotent. But this is his "victory": in exchange for fiscal stability, the Portuguese people have lost much of their vitality and personality. As a result of 27 years of well-masked dictatorship, the Portuguese people are now tired and skeptical and would adapt themselves to a reactionary king or a Communist dictator. For this "victory" we democrats will never forgive him . . . Like many other Portuguese youths trained by Mocidade Portuguesa, (Portuguese Youth State Organization), I was supposed to be an obedient servant. If I am not one, it is thanks to TIME...
...mixture of the various types and sizes! Matters of detail as well as the general educational and social aims of the Houses received his close attention as the new Houses like Dunster, Eliot and Lowell were being planned and some of the older buildings re-arranged to adapt them to what at the time was called the "House plan...
...completely redesigned to conform to their wants. British textile weavers, accustomed to making cloth 36 inches wide, found that American patterns required it to be at least 39 inches wide. Some other sellers have made the necessary changes. But most foreign producers still see no reason why they should adapt their products to American wants, even if they could afford the expense. It is hard for them to accept the rule that in the American market place the buyer is king...