Word: adopt
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...former college history professor, McGovern was under no illusions that his presidential campaign, for the present at least, would be anything more than a holding action designed to rally Kennedy forces. He suggested that a principal object of his candidacy was to apply additional pressure on party regulars to adopt strong platform planks on ending the war and resolving the urban crisis. He praised both McCarthy and Humphrey, who was his neighbor in Chevy Chase, Md., for nine years. He pledged that if either wins the nomination, "he will have my active support-not only for his own considerable merit...
Neither Nixon nor New York's Nelson Rockefeller appeared before the Dirksen group. In a statement sent to the committee, Nixon broke his four-month silence on Viet Nam to adopt a position close to Rockefeller's, but with few specifics. Rockefeller's stand came last month in a detailed proposal envisaging step-by-step military disengagement by Hanoi and Washington. Nixon declared: "The war must be ended." He implied that he would treat with the Viet Cong as well as with the North Vietnamese by saying that serious negotiations must include "as many as possible...
...scholarly, but, ultimately, a complete analysis of the reasons for which the Civil War is regarded as the first modern war. Sherman's march was the first "strategic rape" and it took a poet to explain it in those perfect words so the political scientists could adopt it later as a crude hypothesis to be refined. Both accounts are equally important, but Babe as a playwright is justified in only employing...
...coat propriety from the tops of their bearskin hats to the tips of their famous diamond-patterned Argyll stockings. In fact, these fineries, plus the tartan kilt, so effectively kept Englishmen from signing on with the regiment that Britain's adjutant-general at one point ordered it to adopt a uniform less "objectionable to the natives of South Britain...
...American Challenge has already drawn much attention in Europe and the U.S.; it was a record-breaking 1967 bestseller in France (TIME, Nov. 24). Servan-Schreiber ably develops an argument that French readers found irritating but largely irrefutable: Europe must adopt American industrial methods if it hopes ever to achieve a vital, independent society...