Word: adapter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with a nuclear warhead aimed at targets up to 1,000 miles away. So far, the U.S. has spent or committed $657 million to develop Skybolt for use with the Strategic Air Command's B-52 bomber. And Britain has spent $25 million to adapt its otherwise obsolescent Vulcan II bomber to Skybolt...
...preserve small-unit living on big campuses is the problem, says Critic Eddy. The "three, four-and sometimes ten-story hotel which often serves as a dormitory" is no solution. But neither is preservation of fraternities: "Time has run out for the national fraternity system. It has failed to adapt itself to the demands of the new student and to a changing social pattern. The system can and should be replaced-not with more Hiltons or Statlers but with intellectual centers" that keep the best of fraternity-house living without fraternities...
...history is any guide, the dreamers are in for sharp disappointment. Nikita Khrushchev is as flexible a maneuverer as any Communist who has studied Lenin's line: "If you are not able to adapt yourself, if you are not ready to crawl in the mud on your belly, you are not a revolutionist but a chatterbox." Occasional appearances to the contrary, Khrushchev is no chatterbox. Over Cuba he had to do some crawling, but it will not be easy to keep him down...
...Pritchett is the best Southern police chief he has ever met. Says Pritchett: "I'm Southern through and through. I'm conscious of my roots here, and they go deep. But I know we're living in changing times. I know we've got to adapt ourselves to these things . . . Besides−it's my job to see the law's enforced...
...they settled into barracks, the Gurkhas seemed to adapt quickly to the land so many had defended and so few had seen. Though members of a Hindu sect that sanctions polygamy, few brought even one wife. Their greatest thrill was watching TV, which they had never seen before. The Gurkhas in fact were possibly the only segment of Britain's TV audience that expressed no indignation at the parade of violence on their screens. Though it was plainly this side of heaven, they thought it exhilarating...