Word: adjustment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Mona Kent has no reason to be ashamed [TIME, Sept. 12] of the "stuff" she turns out for radio listeners. After all, it's a living. It is rather those, like myself, who adjust their day's schedule in order not to miss the next episode of these dreary, sordid narratives who should feel ashamed. I wonder if all of us addicts should not consult a psychiatrist...
...resounding vote in favor. Fiery Minister of Health Aneurin ("Nye") Bevan did not denounce the opponents of full-speed nationalization. He seemed to have moved into the moderate camp of House Leader Herbert Morrison. What Bevan and Morrison asked the delegates for, and got, was a mandate to adjust the speed of nationalization to the economic and political weather ahead...
...Edward Estlin) Cummings is a poet who is generally at odds with the world, and a painter who is at peace with nature. In the catalogue for his exhibition at a Manhattan gallery last week, Cummings expressed both attitudes in quick succession. ". . . Come let us adjust," he wrote, "until the whole world's an infrahuman ultrafamily of supersub-morons delightedly drowning in telejuke-movieradiovision." And he followed that bitter advice with the happy reminder that "Art is a question of being alive...
Nitwit Champion. Such thoroughness, practiced more in Europe than in the U.S., aims to develop disciplined horses that can adjust to race-track life. But there was one notable exception, a nitwit named Whirlaway, in the 1939 yearling crop...
Deep Purple. Sometimes, enraged at a sloppy recitation, he would bang his heavy books together, jam them under his arm, and stalk out of the room in the middle of class. More often, he would turn purple, angrily adjust his eyeshade, or ferociously tap his forehead until his rage was spent. "You should be ribbon clerks!" he would bellow at his students. "Ribbon clerks behind a counter...