Word: adjusting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...team went into the match with only two days of outside practice, and it was unable to adjust to the rain-soaked clay courts. The high winds coming off of the East River were also a factor, but coach Jack Barnaby has a simple explanation for the disaster, " they were better than us, and they were lucky...
...words of Emmanuel d'Astier de la Vigerie, a black-sheep aristocrat who helped found the liberation movement. "I think," he admits at one point, "that you joined the Resistance only if you were in some way maladjusted." Then he adds, "But of course if you always adjust to everything you are not a very attractive person...
...instance, a subject sits in a dark room before a luminous rod inside a slightly tilted frame, and is asked to move the rod to an upright position. Boys can separate the rod visually from the frame and make it stand straight; girls, misled by the tipped frame, usually adjust the rod not to the true vertical but to a position parallel with the sides of the frame...
...Roman Catholic Bishop John J. Russell, meanwhile, has let it be known that parents of prospective students for the area's diocesan parochial schools, which have an 8% black enrollment, would be interviewed to weed out those fleeing integration. Amid all the furor, many parents are beginning to adjust to the idea of integrated housing as an alternative to busing. "I hear some talk now about integrating this neighborhood," says one suburban mother. "Before the consolidation, I didn't hear...
...consultants-a group of ex-convicts who used to specialize in robbery, forgery and credit-card theft. They now are part of Project JOVE (an acronym for Job placement. On the job training, Vocational counseling, Education), which is a San Diego operation to help former prisoners find jobs and adjust to life outside...