Word: adapts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...write a story on the Bird Woman of Wyoming, Souchak climbs the mountain at risk of life and lung, falls asleep in Nell's cabin and is poked awake by her. They must reverse roles: he cooks goulash while she overpowers a pair of hunters. They must adapt their skills to the new environment: Souchak defends himself against a mountain lion by calling on his street smarts. They must fall in love, part, reunite: they do. And then Kasdan must resolve the romance and still allow the characters to go their own way: does he ever...
...lips ache from 40 years of smiling." The second result was his second (and last) novel, When William Came, an unsuccessful but percipient fantasy written in early 1913, about what England would be like under German occupation, and how a flabby society full of jokesters, hucksters and aesthetes would adapt to it. The third result was Munro's dramatic enlistment as a private soldier when the fighting broke...
Those ideas for moderating South Africa's rigidly segregationist policies of apartheid show every sign of being far weaker than Botha had once promised. Two years ago, Botha told his fellow Afrikaners they must "adapt or die" in confronting racial segregation. Using the same moralistic tones, he later declared: "I am more convinced than ever that there is only one course to follow: do unto others as you would have them do unto...
...effects may require costly remedies. To halt coastal erosion, dikes will have to be built, and a steadily rising water table may require protection for monuments like the Temple of Karnak. It will be still more difficult to get the 100,000 Nubians displaced by the big lake to adapt to the unfamiliar life of settled farmers on newly arable lands. But even with these problems, Mancy, who first gazed lovingly on the Nile as a youth in Cairo, remains enthusiastic. "Would I build the dam again?" he asks rhetorically. "I would...
...hands on enough aircraft to do the job. When they finally did get helicopters, repeated mechanical failures led some Californians to joke that the choppers were leftovers from the ill-fated hostage rescue mission in Iran. Pilots and ground crews were unaccustomed to the spraying procedures and slow to adapt to the use of the viscous pesticide solution, which tended to clog pumping equipment. It was not until the end of the week that more than two helicopters were aloft at the same time. Observed a U.S. Department of Agriculture official: "I think Murphy's Law has taken over...