Word: adjuster
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...think this is seamy and sordid, you're wrong. It takes only a few minutes to adjust to the spirited and uninhibited Cockney way of life. And Miss Littlewood's touch is anything but heavy. She likes a fast pace, and her crosscutting is unorthodox but effective. Along the way, we are treated to a feast of intriguing cosmopolitan faces, including oldsters and children, Jews and Negroes...
...familiar as the term may be, is not the word to describe the current activity at the Graduate School of Business Administration. From its position of splendid isolation across the river, the Business School has been conducting a quiet but thorough revamping of its curriculum and teaching methods to adjust to a rapidly changing business environment...
...decried on all sides. Not only by angry, narrow sociologists (the late C. Wright Mills) or sociology's cheap popularizer (Vance Packard), or a Marxist culture quack (Erich Fromm). Speaking for more serious observers, Protestant Theologian Paul Tillich fears that the pressures on the individual to conform and adjust may mean a drift toward collectivism and "authoritarian democracy," that man may become
...south. In parts of northern Idaho, Daylight Saving Time is observed on a door-to-door basis. And passengers on the 35-mile bus route between Steubenville, Ohio, and Moundsville, W. Va., would, if they wanted to keep local time for all the stops on the way, have to adjust their watches no less than seven times...
...selfconsistency might be termed a "soft" to get into trouble. The "hard" pragmatist seeks to avoid the eventual plight of his less scrupulous comrade by two tactics. First, he looks upon life as a constant quest for new and higher values. Secondly, he remains ever flexible, ever ready to adjust his ideas in order that the new values may be incorporated into a coherent world scheme...