Word: adapts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...seeking to adapt to these changes, the U.S. must skillfully manipulate its continually growing military machine. Because of the Vietnamese war, the armed forces have increased from 2,644,632 in April 1965 to 3,005,000-the largest contingent the U.S. has mustered since the Korean War. The Army, now with 1,150,000 men, will grow to 1,206,000 by June of 1967. The Navy has increased its fleet from 781 combat ships to 912. The Air Force has just about finished an expansion of its tactical fighter wings from 16 to 21. The U.S. already...
...panga, a two-foot-long bush knife that the Man Mau terrorists wielded to bloody effect against British rule. Independence and parliamentary government demand more subtle solutions. Kenya's President Jomo Kenyatta, whom the British once jailed as the master of the Mau Mau, has been quick to adapt...
...Gaulle responded not with promises but with exhortation. "We want the region to adapt to its difficulties," he said, "to triumph over them. It is the men, and not only the things, that must learn to adapt themselves to our epoch." With that he swept on to nearby Dunkirk, to be greeted by a protest strike of 6,000 steel-and dockworkers. In Calais, the reception was a bit warmer: Mayor Jacques Vendroux is the brother of De Gaulle's wife Yvonne...
Unless the Harvard community can adapt to this system of reduced choice, Monro said. "It may be that we may have to do what Yale has done." Yale automatically assigns all its freshmen to a residential college--New Haven's equivalent of the House--by associating all freshmen dormitories with one of the colleges...
...same fear of the diabolical cleverness of Communists which we used to direct to Moscow. Not only does the strategy require the existence of a local political situation favorable to its success. It requires the existence of a self-reliant, capable, indigenous leadership willing to adopt and adapt it to local condition...