Word: adjustment
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Kemmerer had no alternative ("When they don't want me," he had often said, "I'll resign"). But when the announcement came out last week, his old campus seemed to adjust quickly to the news. For many months, a large segment at Houston had been advocating a new philosophy : the university is a big place now, and it needs a big name to head it. The case, said one Houstonian, is really quite simple: "Kemmerer has built the school into something bigger than himself...
Said Neville: "Almost everywhere you go, there's an unpredictable kind of water shortage, and you have to adjust your living to it. In Hong Kong the water came on for five hours a day, some in the morning, some at noon, a little more at night. In New Delhi, the government has requisitioned practically all housing, and what's left doesn't fit the Western idea of home. When James Burke got there, he rented a house way out in Old Delhi and had to put in his own bathroom." Inflation has boosted rents almost everywhere...
...base at Munsan, where a mobile surgical hospital had been erected; the walking patients went by ambulance. The first man to reach Munsan was Pfc. Robert Stell, a Baltimore Negro. General Mark Clark, who was waiting at Munsan to greet the returnees, saluted Stell and made a move to adjust his robe, but a medic beat the general to it. After medical and intelligence processing, the men were offered cigarettes, Cokes, milk shakes, steak. Some found steak too rich for them...
...haven't realized that our parents feared we would all be killed by automobiles. We're going to have to face the facts that our children will adjust themselves to television better than we can. Maybe a mother's next worry will be what happens to her daughter when she flies to Paris for the weekend...
...marital career for a Hearst reporter in Manhattan. Of husband No. 1, Robert John Herwig, a football coach, she said: "While Bob was overseas, Forever Amber was published . . . During the next year I received $1,000,000 in royalties ... It is to his credit that he was unable to adjust himself comfortably to his wife suddenly making $1,000,000." Husband No. 2, Bandleader Artie Shaw, was "an unhappy mistake from the very beginning ... I was working on Star Money, my second book, and Artie was working on a book of his own. He said this had been a lifelong...