Word: adaptive
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...typical example of the provincialism which so often characterizes Senate conservatives, it is a depressing case of their inability to adapt themselves to the year 1959. American-made equipment for teaching science has long been almost unbelievably expensive. Schools which are neither rich, nor equipped with ingenious teachers who can hand-build teaching equipment, are frequently forced by the costs to curtail some of their science teaching, or to do it with inadequate demonstrations...
Since the sport requires techniques much more skilled than most, coach Jim Lentz has a headache in preparing for Governor Dummer. As assistant coach Hal Loucheim said yesterday, "The success or failure of the team depends on how fast the new players adapt to the game...
...details. Premier Gaston Eyskens refused to consider nationalizing the mines, argued that the liabilities as well as the benefits of the six-nation Coal and Steel Community must be accepted: "Belgium can no longer decide on its own coal policy or even its own economic policy. We have to adapt ourselves...
...reign of "peace by terror," however, Bowles views as the fault of both parties. Democrats failed to adapt their foreign policy to the fact that European balances of power no longer guaranteed stability in the remainder of the world. And the Republicans, their presidential hopes shattered by the 1948 elections, grew tired of cooperating with Democrats in conducting a bipartisan foreign policy...
...rewriting job is no easier because Comes a Day is related to Lamkin's short story of the same title. In fact he rejects the distinction between original play and adaptation. "No play is an original play... All of Tennessee's plays came from either his one-acts or his stories. They're developments. You think about it. Certainly you can't say my play is an adaptation of my short story. It's quite different .... I'd never adapt anybody else's play. I've too much ego for that...