Word: adjustment
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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They never got there. Edward Almquist, the last boy in line, bent over to adjust his skis, heard a sound like "rumbling drums," glanced up, and saw the smoking, tumbling white front of an avalanche racing down upon them. He yelled, fled, fell. When he got up, the mountains were silent again. Keith Jacobsen and the second boy, Larry Schinke, had vanished. Survivor Almquist started the 4½ miles back to the pass. He broke one ski. But he plunged fearfully on, waded along the Snoqualmie River until he found a familiar landmark, then took off through the snow again...
...neighboring ships; U-boats in the West Indies knocked off three ships sailing close at hand. But nothing happened to any of Captain Drent's commands, and nothing interfered with his astronomical studies. The wartime blackout was actually a help: it allowed the captain's eyes to adjust to darkness, the better to observe the zodiacal light...
Each year, the Presidents of the Ivy League colleges take down their 30-30's, adjust their sights, and get set to go Big Game hunting. last February, they bagged a rabbit--a relatively harmless rabbit called Spring football...
...such official ever before had to adjust U.S. diplomacy so quickly, to give it a world-wide scope and make it effective against a shrewd and strong enemy, and to do it in the context of present-day technology. His response to that challenge is what makes Acheson a great Secretary...
...graduating class of SHAPE officers the day after the conference broke up, -"I reject as unjustifiably dangerous the view that potential aggressors do not want war, are not ready for war and will not precipitate war: that we are in for a long cold war and, therefore, should adjust our plans...