Word: adapter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...this is bitter and trivial consolation for many professors and students. Both firms and government agencies can afford to be selective about what ideas they choose to adapt to their needs--and how they adapt them. Thus, many professors find themselves whistling into the wind--and a smaller, but more disgruntled bunch must watch their contract research service long-range goals they abhor...
...with Groovy, who introduced her to the never-never world of drugs. Other hippies sensed that Linda was "not really hip." She had been around only since midsummer, and they considered her a newcomer, a "paranoid chick" who was frightened by the scene but was desperately trying to adapt. No one may ever know the full sequence of sordid events that ended her adaptation, but as police and hippies reconstructed the chain of circumstances that led to the murders of Groovy and Linda, it seemed tragically clear that, as the lapel buttons say, "speed kills...
...hopes soon to adapt the uranium flechettes for firing from a multi-barreled, rotary Gatling gun that can spew out hundreds of rounds per second. When this weapon system has been perfected, there seems little that will be able to stand in the way of its deadly rain of uranium bullets...
...they pushed the button. Even among the fully-prepared subjects, almost half showed a marked increase in heart-beat as a result of the boom. NASA has never admitted to Shurcliff that the experiment's lack of surprise and the heartbeat findings might invalidate the conclusion that people can adapt to the noise...
...hippies and activists. Rarely does one find a full full-time hippy simply because it would be difficult for him to survive the system. Hippies, by now, should have become a recognized element of our generation and the colleges, if they expect to keep them within the system must adapt to them. However, in the last few years it has become apparent that the colleges are not about to make any fundamental changes to accommodate the hippies. The initiative, therefore, must come from the Harvard activists. Yup, they and they alone, can make Harvard safe for hippies...