Word: adjustment
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...victim begins to breathe on his own, adjust the push-pull rhythm to synchronize with...
...quite the same old Vishinsky, the corrosive purveyor of wise saws and ancient instances- he was slower and less certain of himself, and his wit was chillier. But it was the same old Soviet line, with a few new twists to adjust to the passage of a year. For disarmament, Vishinsky wanted a world disarmament conference, to sit by next June; for Korea, he insisted on a truce at the 38th parallel and an evacuation of all foreign troops; for the benefit of Communism, he wanted the U.N. to condemn and outlaw the West's North Atlantic defense organization...
...changed my mind about everything. From what I had learned at home, I couldn't adjust to this new life where I was thrown in with all kinds of people." He saw how some minority groups were getting the worst of everything, and resolved to do something about...
According to the current neo-Pavlovian theories, Bauer says, "the 'New Soviet Man' controls his traits and his behaviour. Anything that goes wrong is caused by his failure to adjust to Stalinism, and is not Stalinism's fault." Bauer's book on Soviet psychology. "The New Soviet Man," will be published this spring by the Harvard University Press...
...last twenty years institutions of higher education have been required to adjust to various external forces--depression, war, and post-war expansion. To be sure, this has been true of all aspects of national life. But higher education has been unique in that each adjustment has meant financial stringency...