Word: adjusted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...damned sick & tired of having their noses rubbed in a stinking war that their only ambition will be to forget it. ... They don't need pity, because you don't pity brave men. . . . They simply need bosses who will give them a little time to adjust their minds and their hands, and women who are faithful to them, and friends and families who stay by them until they are the same guys who left years...
...Camp Lee somnambulists got psychiatric treatment. "We make no claim to have cured these men," reports Colonel Sandier, "but we did succeed in helping a number ... to adjust to the army situation, which is the objective of military psychiatry...
...change, said Dean Hanford, has been approved by the Faculty of Arts and Sciences in order "to adjust the physical training program more closely to actual practice and conditions as they exist today." At the time the present system was adopted, the Faculty pointed out, the great bulk of students were going immediately into the armed forces; most of the men now going into the services from Harvard College are members of the Freshman and Sophomore classes...
Last week Mike was in the Passaic jail. The hardened cops, a few with sons of their own in the service who must some day begin to adjust themselves to civilian life, treated Mike gently. The charges were serious: armed robbery and carrying a concealed weapon. But no one seemed anxious to press the more serious charge of kidnapping...
...Adjust ceiling prices on products that have been produced throughout the war on the same basis as at present...