Word: adopted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Khabarovsk. Finally last week the Imperial Japanese Army propaganda bureau in Tokyo issued what Russians interpreted as a threat that Japan means eventually to seize C. E. R. without paying Moscow so much as a copper kopek. Restrained, but ominous, this statement read: "The Japanese Army has decided to adopt a stronger attitude than before in the event of future Soviet provocations." Meanwhile Moscow made an even stiffer threat, hurled by Soviet Vice President Kuznetsov of C. E. R. Said he: "The Soviet Government will protect the railway employes. The defenses along the border are now complete and the Soviet...
...Secretary and later made him acting Cantonese Generalissimo. To this day South China respects no living Chinese more than Hu Han-min. He has shrewdly traded on the yearning of all Chinese to get back at Japan by hurling repeated rebukes at Generalissimo Chiang for "his spineless failure to adopt a strong policy toward the foreign power which has torn and ravaged our homeland...
...present as a spectator, induce her to finish the delivery. Small illegitimate Hathaway gets better breaks than her close relatives. Her mother flies an airplane out to sea for a glamorous suicide. Dr. Monica and her husband, who is still ignorant that he is the father of the child, adopt the infant and seem delighted with her actions. A trivial contribution to the cinema's dossier on bastardy, Dr. Monica serves to demonstrate the versatility of Warner's latest star, Jean Muir. who was the patient-faced farm girl in .45 the Earth Turns, a pioneer...
...stopping when the picture ends with her release from jail, at 42. The man she loves, John Shadwell (John Boles) marries someone else, under the mistaken impression that Vergie has jilted him. Vergie gives birth to an illegitimate daughter named Joan. John and his rancid wife Laura (Helen Vinson) adopt Joan. Gossip about Vergie's protracted affair with John causes the ladies of Parkville to boycott Vergie's millinery store. Her landlord ups the rent and Vergie's radio breaks down...
...adopts the teachings of a woman leader of a cult who is now dead and in her grave. She was no Messiah and no God, just a woman of bones, flesh and blood, and yet this plaintiff, who will die as you and I, with hundreds of thousands of others, has seen fit to put aside real science ... to adopt the belief that pain and illness are things of the imagination and not of reality...