Word: adapter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...told "But what other treatment of the subject would have been let through...?" K-123 replies in a rage "Ha! Let through, you say? Then don't call him a genius! Call him a today, say he carried out orders like a dog. A genius doesn't adapt his treatment to the taste of tyrants...
...Nationalist Leader Tom Mboya is one of the few politicians to pledge that his Kenya African National Union will permit no one to be "victimized on grounds of race, color, tribe or religion." But even Mboya adds blandly, "We of course wish to see Asians and other non-Africans adapt themselves to the new order by accepting African leadership and African government...
...University's regular academic curriculum. (A favorite example of this sort of project is the movie-making venture of a group of Dunster residents last spring.) In Mr. Stewart's view, one of the most praiseworthy attributes of the House system is the speed with which the Houses can adapt to trends in undergraduate interests. He points out that a House can institute a seminar in sculpture or painting at few weeks' notice, while the University's reaction, though immensely bigger and better equipped, may take two or three years to appear...
...course we feel that collectivization is ultimately the best way, but each socialist nation must adapt itself to the particular situation," Lewandowski said...
...anthropologists, man is the child of the Pleistocene ice age, that period beginning roughly 1,000,000 years ago when he was forced to adapt to fierce variations in climate, and when the brutalities of nature hastened his evolution from the apes. Dating the period precisely has always been difficult. On land, erosion has obliterated almost all trace of the Pleistocene's earliest glaciers. On most parts of the cold, quiet ocean bottom, where remnants of prehistory have survived, ancient sediments have piled up too deeply for convenient study. The cylindrical cores that have been brought up have...