Word: adaptive
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...energies toward solving the Algerian problem. Never humble, even in adversity, De Gaulle will not yield to the reasoning of his opponents "that if he succeeds in Algeria, he will no longer be necessary." Instead, the French people will be reminded of their debt to the man who might adapt Louis XIV's reputed maxim to read La nation...
...preempted the positions of radical social protest. As the instances of Dreiser and Dos Passos show, they were not able to make any cultural use of their pre-eminence. The American intelligentsia turned left in the grim years between '28 and '32, but the Party was never able to adapt itself to it. It was not simply that Marxism produced no literary criticism worth printing, though that was true enough; but even the social criticism of the American Left during the '30's came from men like Parrington, Beard, and Veblen, rather than from Marx. And Aaron's sketch...
Next to Yap. Though all change is abhorrent to the English, small change in Britain is impossibly hard on tourists, pocket linings and computers, whose manufacturers keep their most advanced models out of the country rather than adapt them to the currency.* The British have seven separate coins, ranging from the halfpenny (pronounced haypenny) through the half crown, which is worth 35?; and next to the stone cartwheels used for coins on the Pacific island of Yap, they are almost certainly the world's heaviest. Since the lowest-value folding money is the 10-shilling note, which...
...council will formalize this belief in a definition that would please Orthodox Metropolitans, who believe that infallibility rests solely with the church rather than with the Bishop of Rome. Non-Italian bishops will press for an internationalization of the Roman Curia and for greater freedom for themselves to adapt church practices to the needs of their flocks. Missionary diocesans, for example, believe that most Indians, who take off their shoes to enter temples, would find Catholicism more acceptable if priests said the Mass barefoot or in stocking feet...
Such solutions were only in the exploratory stage, but they were the first traces of a new blueprint that might enable U.S. airlines to adapt to the harsh economic realities...